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what we touch

 


This week we are talking about the 5 senses that God has given us.  They are sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.  So far we have talked about what we hear and see.  Today we will touch.


Throughout the Old Testament law people were reminded what they should and should not touch.  That is somewhat of what we share with our kids of “good and bad touch.”  Do you remember that?


Literally there are many things that we should not touch, and there are things we should tough.  Yet that reminder says that there are times to touch things and times not to touch things.


One example is the chicken I was cooking last night.  When preparing the chicken, I was touching it and getting it ready to cook.  Then I washed my hands.  You get it.  When the chicken was in the pan cooking, I didn’t touch the chicken, and I should not hav touched the pan.  Do you get that?  I got burned.


There is a time to touch and a time not to touch.  That reminds me of what Ecclesiastes 3 says about a time for everything.


But as we think about our senses I challenge is to think about what we touch today.  Go a little further.  Think about who you touch.  Here are just a few points:


Leave things you touch better than you found them.


My dad would always tell me that.  When you borrowed something from a person, leave it better than you found it.


 Be careful not to hurt yourself by what you touch.


This might be keeping yourself from getting cut.  It might even be keeping yourself from things that could hurt not your skin but your heart.


See the things you touch as God’s creation, and give Him paise.


This might be the flower you pick.  This could be the hand you hold.  This could be the steering wheel you turn or the book you hold to read.


God has given us the sense of touch, and what we touch makes a different.  Let’s make sure we use our lives and our hands for what makes God seen in and around us as well as what makes us better.  


The sense we have of touch is an amazing gift given to us by God.  Use it for His glory and your good each and every day.


Leviticus 5:3  NLT  

Or suppose you unknowingly touch something that makes a person unclean. When you realize what you have done, you must admit your guilt.


1 John 1:1  NLT  

We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life.

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