{"id":40273,"date":"2026-05-12T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40273"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:06:26","slug":"26-0513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0513\/","title":{"rendered":"The Touch of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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People longed for the compassionate touch of Jesus. Each one who came was touched, and each one touched was changed.But none was touched or changed more than the unnamed leper described in the first four verses of Matthew chapter 8. \u201cHe bowed before Jesus and said, \u2018Lord, you can heal me if you will.\u2019 And Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, \u2018I will. Be healed!\u2019 And immediately the man was healed from his disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

In New Testament times, leprosy was the most dreaded disease. In Scripture, the leper is symbolic of the ultimate outcast. A person doesn\u2019t have to have leprosy to feel quarantined. The divorced, handicapped, unemployed, depressed, and terminally ill know this feeling. Jesus touched the untouchables of the world. Will you do the same?<\/p>\n

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People longed for the compassionate touch of Jesus. Each one who came was touched, and each one touched was changed.But none was touched or changed more than the unnamed leper described in the first four verses of Matthew chapter 8. \u201cHe bowed before Jesus and said, \u2018Lord, you can heal me if you will.\u2019 And Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, \u2018I will. Be healed!\u2019 And immediately the man was healed from his disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

In New Testament times, leprosy was the most dreaded disease. In Scripture, the leper is symbolic of the ultimate outcast. A person doesn\u2019t have to have leprosy to feel quarantined. The divorced, handicapped, unemployed, depressed, and terminally ill know this feeling. Jesus touched the untouchables of the world. Will you do the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40310,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40273\/revisions\/40310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}