Mark 5:24-34
“So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.””
Mark 5:24-34 NIV
The power and peace of God is available for those who believe. Even today, some medical conditions are seen as more honorable than others. A broken arm is less socially embarrassing than hemorrhoids, for instance. In the same vein, women are taught from a very early age to hide any hint of menstruation. Once again, Jesus shows that He doesn't care about social convention. He doesn't care if it's an injury, an illness, something we're born with, or even something that would make us ritually unclean if we were still under the Mosaic Law. In fact, sometimes God will even use the ignoble physical conditions to bring us closer to Him to help us in our journey toward spiritual maturity.
Sometimes God does not change your situation because He is trying to change your heart. God will allow some things to go on for a long time in order for it to bring you to the point where you realize that all you have left is God. It’s at that moment that God can do something incredible.
Looks can be deceiving. It’s easy to live a life that appears perfect but lacks a desperate need for Jesus. We can know the Bible, have godly spouses and be involved in church, but sometimes it takes significant pain to force us to fall at the Lord’s feet. Sometimes, we see God’s mercy best through the pain.
It is common with people not to apply to Christ till they have tried in vain all other helpers, and find them, as certainly they will, physicians of no value. Some run to diversions, others plunge into business, or even into intemperance, others go about to establish their own righteousness, or torment themselves by vain superstitions. Many perish in these ways, but none will ever find rest to the soul by such devices, while those whom Christ heals of the disease of sin, find in themselves an entire change for the better. As secret acts of sin, so secret acts of faith, are known to the Lord Jesus.
The woman told all the truth. It is the will of Christ that His people should be comforted, and He has power to command comfort to troubled spirits. The more simply we depend on Him, and expect great things from Him the more we shall find in ourselves that he is become our salvation. Those who, by faith, are healed of their spiritual diseases, have reason to go in peace.
Jesus changed this woman’s life on the spot. At some point, many of us have believed the lie that we need to clean up before coming to the Lord. We have lived in fear that God wouldn’t be able to handle the mess we have made and that we would be left to begin the cleanup process alone.
What God asks of us is to seek His help and the help of His people. God welcomes our mess, and often His voice is the clearest when our lives are the messiest.
When our lives become overwhelming, we too need to stop, pray, and have faith, in Jesus’ ability to heal the broken places of our lives. When we desperately surrender our longings to Jesus, we can walk in peace and freedom through any situation.
When you hear Jesus call, “Come to Me”, you are hearing a call from your Creator, the Heavenly Physician who can truly heal you. It would be wise to heed His voice and to respond to His call, for your only hope is found in Him. Many people ignore Him or do not realize who He really is. Others may come into contact with things associated with Him, like church or Christian activities. But like the crowd that jostled Jesus, their contact with Jesus may be merely accidental.
Like the woman, we need to deliberately reach out and touch Jesus. We need to respond intentionally; no one comes to Jesus carelessly.
Only then will we find the true Healer and be healed.
Sometimes God does not change your situation because He is trying to change your heart. Sometimes He changes both. If you are in the middle of something difficult keep moving toward Jesus, reach out to touch Him and see what He does.
You too have that same opportunity to come before God and surrender it all to Him. Like this woman, you try and live life your own way, rejecting that there is a God who has been there along. The God who loves you and paid the penalty for our sin by dying a painful death so that we would not have to. If we choose to place our faith and trust in Jesus Christ, the one who has the answer to life’s struggles and our reason to experience joy. He also looks at us and in the same way says, “Daughter or Son, your faith has made you well”. In a sea of urgent need, Jesus stops for you. Let this glorious truth encourage you today!!!
Father thank You for this day and for Jesus Who is the healer of our souls. Lord let Your abundant blessings rain down over my friend and families today. Lord help us to listen to our hearts and trust that no problem is too great, if we truly believe in Jesus. Lord it is amazing to know that it doesn't matter how long we have suffered, that You will always heal us and bandage us up, and we will be brand-new. Lord You healed an invalid man who had been in that condition for over thirty years. You simply asked him if he wants to be well again, and when he said yes, You told him to stand up and take his mat. Lord, I know that everyday You constantly ask us if we want to be well again. We know everything You constantly share Your blessing around the world. We know that You give out of the abundance of Your love, which is unimaginable. If You could heal the invalid and the woman who had blood-flow issue for twelve years, we know that no matter how long we have been in this condition, that You will heal us. Lord we ask for the desire to embrace out faith that we may partake in the many blessings You constantly distribute around the world out of the abundance of Your love. Lord use my friend to be the blessing someone needs today. Daddy we love You amen. Be a blessing. Love ya
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