A Defining Touch

This was a blog I wrote a while back, but it rings true, so I am posting it as my second blog attempt here on blogger.

So, I was sitting watching Hannah Montana tonight in concert in London, and something occurred to me, and I was soo intrigued by this idea, I got on youtube and researched other people and everything I researched was the same. So i decided to blog on this little thought, and hopefully you..ll see what I am trying to get at...
So I am watching Hannah Montana like I said, laugh if you want, but keido and kento love her, and I think she may actually be a positive role model for teens today, but that is neither here nor there, but what I noticed is. I noticed as she sang and danced around on the stage the teens in the audience were reaching out for a touch from her, and they were pressing forward hard to get the opportunity of receciving her touch. When I looked at this through youtube, I saw this same phenomina in regards to sport players, presidents, popes, Bono, and many more, this can even be carried over to people wanting to touch a sacred rock, cow, buddha, virgin Mary, even a cross. People want and are looking for a special touch, they feel that touching a famous person or object somehow makes them important, or special, or is somehow endowing them with the touch of power so that they are entitled to become famous too, but generally because they believe something will change for them. They want a defining life changing event, or moment.
We see this clearly even in the Bible, especially in one story in particular where Jesus is walking through the country and people are coming to him as he is walking and they are reaching out to him, and along comes this lady who has a medical problem, she has a problem with bleeding all the time, and she determines that if she can get close to Jesus and just touch the edge of his robe she believed she would be healed, and so that is what she does, she goes in and and shoves and presses her way to the front of the crowd and reaches out for that touch, but unlike celebrities and politicians, Jesus was someone who' s touch can change lives, and that one touch transformed her life by healing her body, and changing her physically and then he knowing what has happened turns to her and changes her spiritually.
Christ is our ultimate example. People in this world are dying for a touch that may trransform their lives and that may define them. People here in Japan are constantly looking for meaning in this world, and the younger generations have observed the failings of their parents religions of Buddhism, and Shintoism, and so they have turned to Money hoping they can buy the things and experiences to change their lives, both physically and spiritually. The younger generation in America is close along the same lines, looking for the genuine and disdaining fake anything. People want a touch! They want the real thing. As Christians we have the answer, and hopefully we as christians have experienced the genuine life altering touch of Christ. Because when we show the world the genuine deal, we become like lights, which attract people who are in the dark, and can also show them the way to the LIGHT - CHRIST! And HE will reach down and give them the touch that people are desperate for, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt he will transform their lives! The world desperately needs hope, are you showing them a Christ that they can reach out and touch and would want to touch??