It Touched Me!

Good morning on this great day in the Lord! A touch may relieve stress. A touch may also cause stress. The world sometimes makes a joke of being touched. But the touch of a loved one is something we seek and enjoy. Let us today consider a touch that we may not have pondered before: the touch of God's glory. We are born again to reflect the glory of God's own Son. In order to reflect the glory of Christ to the world, that glory must first touch the reflecting surface. In other words, God's glory touches you and me.

At the first, the reflecting surface may seem a bit dim. We don't reflect Jesus very well when we commit that same old sin. We don't reflect God's glory well when we act as the world acts. But with each trial and affliction, our reflecting surface is refined in the fire of God's forge. We grow and shine better as God makes us into that perfect reflection of His Son. When God has made us so that people of the world see Jesus in our lives, then we have become good reflectors. But, in order to reflect well, we must be touched by the glory of God.

What a privilege to be touched by the glory of God, the Almighty One! How is it that we as sinners born and bred could deserve to ever be touched by such magnificence? The saving grace of Christ Jesus must indeed be far more potent than we can imagine. In our old lives we looked like lumps of bad coal, reflecting nothing but the blackness of sinful hearts. In the eternal life in Christ we come to look like diamonds - tough, valuable, and so very reflective. Without light to reflect though, a diamond is not beautiful to look at. In order to reflect and refract that light in beautiful colors, the diamond is first touched by the light. What marvelous grace have we to be touched by the very light of heaven himself, Jesus our Lord.

Bucky