Advent Day 6 - The Personal Touch
Several years ago, I set aside my
morning Advent readings to help a young friend pack her car with suitcases and
preschoolers for the long drive home to Texas. I took the two-year old to the piano
and we sat and played and sang songs together. At one point, the curly-headed
toddler placed both of her tiny, pink hands on my hands and for a few moments,
we were one - playing music together.
I looked down at those little hands resting on mine, felt the warmth of young tender flesh depending on me to play the notes, and I experienced Advent worship.
How could it be? She was speeding west in her car seat, but those baby hands lingered, resting on mine, comforting my soul this Christmas. Like the baby's hands in the manger that rest on a world of hurting experiences, that soft touch of God presented itself through my tiny houseguest for my own personal worship.
Warren Wiersbe in his book Real
Worship says:
"There is today such an
emphasis on Bible knowledge that we are in danger of ignoring, or even
opposing, personal spiritual experience. While we must not base our theology on
experience, neither must we debase our theology by divorcing it from
experience. If true worship is the response of the whole person to God, then we
dare not neglect the emotions."
Today, I challenge you to allow yourself a personal touch from God. Might they be the tender hands of a toddler? Might they be the aging hands of a parent? Might they be the hands of a friend, spouse, or a teenager or sales clerk?
Who will depend on you to play the Christmas song for them?
"The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)
Holy One,
Guide me to those who need a personal touch from you. Let me be their hands.
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