The touch of the Master’s hand

There is a poem that was written by Myra Brooks Welch titled “The Touch of the Master’s Hand.” Its ending goes as follows, “But the Master comes and the foolish crowd Never can quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that is wrought By the Touch of the Master’s Hand.”

At some time in your life, if you have ever experienced the touch of the Master’s Hand, then you understand the message of this poem.

Almost every day, we pass people whose lives are “out of tune” as the violin was in the poem, and yes, their lives are battered and scarred with sin.

Sometimes it is hard for those of us who make up the crowd to realize their lives can be made pure again by simply experiencing the touch of the Master’s Hand. We should allow God to use us to bring this wonderful truth to those who need hope before there was none.

Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “It takes no brains to be an atheist. Any stupid person can deny the existence of a supernatural power because man’s physical senses cannot detect. But there cannot be ignored the influence, the respect we feel for moral law, the mystery of first life on what must have been a molten mass, or the marvelous order in which the universe moves us about on this earth.

“All of these evidences show us the handiwork of a beneficent deity. For my part that deity is the God of the Bible and of Christ His Son.”

One time, a very famous person made the following statement, “In most any circumstance, if you will watch what the crowd is doing and do exactly the opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.”

You may remember that the most famous trial in history ended when Pontius Pilate asked the crowd, “What shall I do with this man Jesus?” and the crowd yelled “Crucify him!” Yes, it was the crowd that sent Jesus to the cross.

THE CONNIE MACK STORY

The numbers that he put up as a Major League owner and manager were not very impressive at the end of his career. He lost 3,814 games, which was a Major League record, and he was forced to sell his team in 1951 because of its poor financial condition.

As a fiscal manager, he was probably one of the worst owners in the history of sports, but the records he set in the early years of professional baseball will probably never be broken.

He built the Philadelphia Athletics around pitching and won world championships in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 and 1930. Even the Yankees with Ruth and Gehrig could not stop his teams.

Cornelius Mac Guillicudity, better known as Connie Mack, set the record for most games managed (7,755) and most games won (3,755). His record of 50 years of managing one team will probably never be broken.

ALMOST FIRED

A manager and a salesman stood looking at a map on which colored pins indicated the company representative in each area. “I am not going to fire you, Wilson,” the manager said, “But I am loosing your pin a bit just to emphasize the insecurity of your situation.”

George Adams once said, “There is no such thing as a self-made person. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character as well as our success.”

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