The Memory Of His Touch
“Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.” Matthew 19:13
In later life, these children must have been glad to remember that Jesus had laid His hands on their heads and blessed them.
Sometimes the memory of even a human hand laid on the head in childhood stays all through life and is a blessing.
A Christian man said late in his life that he could still feel the touch of his dying father’s hand on his head as he said his last goodbye and asked him to promise to follow Christ.
Another boy was brought to his father’s bedside, and was “kissed and blessed and given to God.” All through his youth, when he was tempted to do wrong, the thought would return, “No, I must not do this, for I am the boy who was kissed and blessed and given to God.”
In later years when the weight of life pressed down on him and he was about to yield to despair, he would remember his father’s acts and words, and the memory would sustain him: “No; am I not the boy who was kissed and blessed and given to God?”
All through his life he was upheld and strengthened by the memory of his father’s last blessing.
If all who have been consecrated to Christ, and have had His hand laid on them, would ever remember that holy touch, how pure and true would it make their lives!
“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.” 1 Chronicles 28:9