"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey His commandments." (1 John 5:1,2 NRSV)
All of us are like [the prodigal] son, needing more desperately than anything else the strong and gentle embrace of the hands of God. We must be those hands for each other -- not someday, but today…
Let us be gentle with each other. Let us touch each other. Let us touch even those who seem in some superficial way to be different. For we are all of us sons and daughters of God.
I once heard Peter Storey, preaching in Johannesburg during the reign of apartheid, suggest that we should be prepared when we sing that old child's hymn: "Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus." Storey imagined that Jesus' reply would be: "Okay, here I come, but I'm bringing all these other people with Me."
-- James C. Howell in Yours Are the Hands of Christ
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