What do I feel as God touches me?

What do I Feel as God touches me?

We should all take a moment, or many moments, to consider how often the Lotd touches us; especially when we never ask for his blessings.  Think of the time you escaped serious injury or even death before or after taking another step or driving your car.

How much and often the Lord is constantly reaching your daily walk where the obvious failure could become your final moment, and God is not ready for your presence, yet. ”Not a hair of your head will be destroyed.  By your perseverance you will secure your lives.”  (Lk 21: 18).

This verse tells us that our destiny is not in our hands but by the graciousness of the Lord our future is being guided through the Holy Spirit.  We cannot physically see or feel the Holy Spirit who is dwelling within our souls.  However, his every word, or warnings of spirituality, has a way of reaching the slowness of our vision that has closed the sense of being right with God.  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor.”  (Lk 4: 18).  Although Jesus is preaching in the Synagogue at Nazareth, these words also must become a mantra for each of us to continue his mission to the destitute among us.

Feeling God’s touch is not a human capacity that fulfills a specific need that may be absent.  It is a spiritual entity that has reached deeply into the sinews of our heart to allow a movement of charity towards others.  When Jesus spoke at Nazareth he was taking the first step towards his mission to save mankind.  As that similar episode of becoming loving to the poor, so the touch of God will create a feeling of completion within the sacrament of belief in God. 

During this month of July, when Americans relive the freedoms we’ve fought for, God will be there to touch out lives in ways we may not appreciate until we feel the essence of righteousness that is God.  How do we know if he still is our hope when our desires have slipped towards the lowest treasures of a decadent nation?  Take a moment and look back on the world’s great nations that collapsed, not from outside enemies but to the immorality of pleasure that pushes everything holy away from its people.  Rome was the mightiest but failed to keep God as their only entity of goodness.  Some modern nations have done the same and the United States is running a close second that may overtake the previous corrupted nations.  

Does God take pleasure in viewing the fall of a nation especially when his presence has been prayed for?  Absolutely not.  “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”  (2 Chr 7: 14).

These words so eloquently spoken to Solomon should become the mantra of nations living in degradation today.  When, O, God, will your people who have the sacredness of world envy, turn back to you?  The United States of America was built upon Christianity and for over 200 years the majority of its citizens have decreed you as their living God.  What we are looking at now blurs the goodness of holiness and the presence of Ant-christian principles is entering into and destroying freedoms you promised us.

 We are reminded of the fate that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah experienced.  And if we only had a prophet like Abraham who asked for God’s mercy.  “Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?  The Lord replied, if I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake  (Gn 18: 24, 26).  As the last plea from Abraham; “Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.  What if there are at least ten there?  For the sake of those ten, he replied, I will not destroy it.”  (Gn 18: 32).  

Perhaps one may say; “I feel the touch of God and I also am asking if he will spare our nation for the few who are just?”  

Ralph B. Hathaway