2/21/14

2/21/14

A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, "If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed." Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition. Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my robe?" His disciples said to him, "Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, 'Who touched me?'" But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over." (Mark 5:25-34 NLT)

I really find this story interesting. The reason: not because Jesus heals two people in a significant way, but because the lady who was bleeding was healed without Jesus' intention. Jesus feels the power flow out from Him, but He did not will for it to happen. Jesus was surprised by this. This is making me re-think some things. Perhaps healing in general is part of His will, no matter what. Maybe Jesus' healing is just sitting there, waiting to be tapped into, and maybe it is about our faith? We have seen examples recently of desperate people, praying with desperate faith, and we have seen healing. Maybe God is looking for us to be completely desperate, and completely sold out to him being the ONLY answer, as He was for this woman. All the other options of the time had been exhausted, all she had left for an option was Jesus.

Sent from my iPad