Monday, August 13, 2007
Daily QT: 08/13/2007 Mark 5:25-29
25And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26She 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. 27When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
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i can't explain how powerful this woman's testimony has been in my life. people have spoken this passage into my life before, and i have totally felt Jesus' gentle, loving, healing touch...
reading it this time around, v26 stands out:26She 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.
maybe it's b/c this past sunday's message was SO POWERFUL about how it's different from saying "yeah, i trust in God" while having other things to lean on vs. "trusting in God ALONE"... in some things in our lives, it's God ALONE who can heal and restore
dood i totally and completely 2nd cripie's. i was gonna write pretty much exactly the same thing. she beat me to it!!!
perhaps it was yesterday's sermon...but when i read this passage again today the things that stood out were how she tried to get cure from EVERYTHING previously. i'm sure she didn't try to get cure from everything exclusive of God, but she tried everything else at the same time. however finally she decided to trust in God alone and only in God, and was finally cured.
sibs, our God is able and willing. we just need to trust in Him alone.
What jumped out at me was that this woman was still hopeful after 12 years of pain, suffering, and failings. I think I might have given up hope after so long. I don't know if I would have listened to the stories about a man named Jesus, gotten myself out of bed, fought through the crowds and reached out for his robe.
Jesus is there - right in front of us. And no matter how deeply the world may have let us down, we mustn't give up hope in Jesus. It is through hope and faith that we reach out to receive his love and grace.
This poor woman and her severe affliction is representative on a deeper level of so many, if not all, of the rest of us. We are constantly plagued by our various needs, despite the "best" and "expert" support we might receive from those around us. By our own human logic, we ought to realize the folly of our ways -- as even Einstein said, "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. So it becomes blatantly obvious that all we can and must do is turn to our Healer-in-Chief: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8)
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