You Can Touch God

YOU CAN TOUCH GOD.... “For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.” (Mk5:28)

The one thing an average believer yearns for is to be touched by God. Many can’t wait to experience such feelings so that they may share it to the chagrin of others. We sometimes hear the testimonies of others and wished we are the one to have experienced such nostalgic feelings. The story abounds of people who have experienced the touch of God both individually and corporately. Such feelings many times makes one ask for more and sometimes it can be as intoxicating as drug. As they always say, the first taste of drug (of whatever form) is always the best. Why so? Because your first experience is your first, hence you will have a feeling you had never had before, but afterwards, they are just top ups. The problem is you will never have the first feeling again because there is never a first time twice, and the quest for this first time feeling is what breeds addiction and sometimes, it leads to the death of the very foolish. Sometimes in our lives as believers, our experience of the touch of God can be very exhilarating and intoxicating. There is no one person who has heard such an experience and will not long for more of it. I dare say that many of us will give whatever it takes to be in such an experience permanently. But God in his infinite mercy and wisdom does not permit it to be permanent. I think and I believe that He did not allow it so that we will not have to depend on it. If God had permitted that, it is possible that many of us will not feel complete without it forever in our fellowship with Him. If care is not taken, such feelings can become more important than God Himself. If you are a matured believer, you would have observed that such feeling is prominent in our babyhood. It looks at the point that God is spoon feeding us. And at such times we tend to have such great zeal for God, but such zeal is always with little knowledge. The truth is that we knew next to nothing about God then, yet we experience a tremendous touch of Him. If you have ever been through such an experience, you will observe at certain times in your spiritual growth that such experience will start getting far and in between. It is at this time that you start thinking and feeling that maybe it is because of your sin that God did not get in touch with you. Because such a feeling had almost become like your opium, it is your indicator of God’s presence with you, your approval rating, that you prayed right, that you worshipped right, it even is the mark of your spirituality.

Many believers have had their spiritual growth stunted because they won’t let go of not having this experience, others have ended up being heretic because they dabble into negative spirits instead of sticking with the balance of the word and the spirit, while others have compromised their trust in God with black magic because, ‘they gotta have this feeling!’ Little wonder the scripture say, “the just shall live by faith”. Did you observe that nothing else was added to this phrase? It is so simple yet confusing. There is this human tendency that says, ‘until you do what people will see and commend, they will not appreciate you’. Somehow, we have attributed this to God and spirituality. “I don’t feel anything; God is not pleased with me.” I don’t feel anything; they will think I am no longer spiritual.” I have since found out that feeling is the most unstable way to judge anything in life. For example, because you feel headache does not mean you are ‘sicker’ than one who does not yet carries in his body terminal illness. You may have been in an airconditioned room for a long period of time that the cool breeze makes you feel cold, if you leave that place and enter into the Sun, dramatically, you will start to sweat, your feeling has just changed. Feeling is superficial. Because feeling is unreliable, God would not permit us to build our tent in that realm. It was good while we were babes, but unrealistic for spiritual adults. Notwithstanding that we cannot live permanently on God touching us, we can continually touch Him. Meaning you can go to God on purpose and receive from Him on purpose. And that is the story of the woman with the issue of blood, she heard about Jesus and she purposed right there that she will touch Him to be whole and she did and received her healing. You might say, ‘but Jesus is no more physically present, how can I touch Him?’ Notice that when Jesus asked who touched Him the disciples told Him there were too many people around Him and they were touching Him. Yet He felt the touch of this one person. Why? She touched Him by her faith, her touch went beyond the physical contact, she touched Him on purpose and she got His presence. She did not wait for a touch, rather she touched Jesus (who is God personified) and got His attention. That is a touch of maturity. God is not interested in people who always want Him to get their attention; rather He looks for one to get His attention. Your faith in God can make Him stand still and attend to you in the midst of the many religious touch. Your faith can and will cause you to always be in touch with your heavenly Father no matter your feelings. At such level of maturity, head you win tail the devil loses. If God chooses to make His presence felt, you are on, and you bask in such glory, but when he doesn’t you intentionally through your faith reach out to Him and get into His presence and experience the same level of grace and glory.

With such an experience, there is never a dull moment for a child of God and the devil can never get at you because you now live past feelings. Moreover, if you desire His presence, touch and intervention in your circumstance, you can make it happen through your faith. It is time for you to mature up, seek to be in God’s presence at all times; either when He makes his presence known or when you reach out by faith and be in His presence, because you can touch God at all times. Start Now!