An Issue of Blood
This story reveals a healing from all kinds of desperate situations.
“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 knelt 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 5:25-34).
The woman “reached out to Christ” “came and fell at His feet and, trembling with fear…” Why was she in fear? Was she afraid of rebuke? It can be fearful to open up to our brothers and sisters and to be vulnerable before them – transparent.
People will fail you. But when we reach out for Jesus we will never receive condemnation. Jesus is approachable in every circumstance. God sometimes allows circumstances to enter our lives that reduce us to desperation so that we will reach out for Him.
Jesus lovingly reassured the woman with the words, “Take heart” and affectionately addressed her as “daughter”. Jesus healed her, washed her pure, and assured her that the torment would not return with the words, “Be freed from your suffering.”
Jesus compassionately told the woman “Your faith has made you well”. If you believe, there is healing in the name of Jesus! All you need to do is ask and believe that Jesus can and will heal you.
Whatever religion you believe in, Jesus loves you, and He wants to bless you and heal you.
God bless you.
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Awesome post! Keep up the great work! 🙂