Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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 5:33-34
In Mark Chapter 5, we find a miraculous story of healing for a woman who understood what it means to be quarantined. She had been quarantined for 12 years. She was lonely, sad, and had lost all hope that she would be healed. She was desperate for a miracle and Jesus had just what she needed. The same is true for us. When we feel the most hopeless, that is when we can know that He is the most capable to restore and provide everything we need.
A Woman With Issues
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?
Mark 5:28-30
She
knew Jesus was coming and she believed that though countless doctors could not
help her, He could heal her. She had been to every doctor and spent all she
had, yet she was worse, instead of better. Jesus was her only hope. The city
was crowded, and she could barely move, bumping up against all these people,
making them unclean. She saw Him but could not get close. She got down on her
hands and knees and crawled through the sea of legs, reached out as far as she
could, and barely touched the hem of his garment. She believed that was all she
needed to be healed, and it was. The moment she touched His clothes, she
instantly felt that she was healed, and Jesus felt something too. He knew that
power had gone out of His body and He turned around looking for who touched
Him. His disciples were a little confused when He was asking who touched Him,
because there were so many crowded around and pushing in to get to Jesus that
everyone was touching each other. How could they possibly identify just one
touch?
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 5:31-34
Jesus
healed more than her issue of blood that day. He healed all of her issues when
He turned around and said “Daughter.” He took her old identity of being
unclean, unworthy, and unwanted, and gave her a new identity as Daughter of the
King of Kings. Our issues keep us hidden away, ashamed, embarrassed, alone and
believing we are unworthy. They keep us from “bumping” up against others more
worthy, who, in our minds, would never understand or want to be around the
likes of us. They keep us from believing in just the touch of His garment. They
keep us from trusting Him with our issues. We are not hiding a thing. Our issues
may be unseen by the world, but our Heavenly Father knows every issue we have,
and yet still calls us Daughter. He looks at us the same way He looked at her,
as His child, not a woman with issues. He never thinks that we are too unclean
for Him, too unworthy for Him, too far gone for Him. He never worries about us touching Him, but beckons us to reach for Him
and with even just the slightest brush of His garment, He instantly exchanges
our issues for a beautiful new identity.
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. Malachi 4:2
Leviticus 15:25-27
