Passage
Jesus
senses that power has gone out from Him into the woman with the
hemorrhage. He immediately turns around
and asks who touched Him. The disciples
take one look at the crowd and know the futility of trying to determining who
touched Him. The woman knew what had
happened to her. So she came to Him in
fear and trembling. She fell before Him
and told Him the whole truth. Jesus calls
her daughter and tells her that her faith had made her well. She was to go in peace and live free of the
disease.
Thoughts for Today
First Thought:
Jesus
felt power go out from Him. He knew
something happened. In fact, let’s face
it. He is God. He also knew who did it. But if we look at Jesus’ response, He lets
the woman come to Him. Instead of
turning around and pulling her out of the crowd, Jesus lets the woman come to
Him on the terms of her own faith. Again
we see that Jesus isn’t interested in dominating. Jesus is interested in relationships.
What
does it mean to you that Jesus lets this woman come to Him?
Second Thought:
The
woman comes before Jesus with fear and trembling. She had been taken advantage by physician
after physician. She had every reason to
fear the cost that Jesus was going to demand from her. She had already spent everything that she
had. But to her credit, she still comes
before Jesus and tells the whole story.
She owns up to her action.
Why
would it have been hard for this woman to come before Jesus? Why is confession difficult?
Third Thought:
Jesus
hears the woman and tells her to go in peace.
He commends her faith. He takes a
woman who is afraid and restores her faith.
She had been taken advantage of by physician after physician. Yet Jesus gives her true healing essentially
for free. In this simple act of Jesus,
we see the difference that the pure grace of God can make within this woman.
Why
is God’s grace so different than the way that the world typically works? Why can a simple demonstration of God’s grace
make a huge impact in the lives of people?
Passage
for Tomorrow: Mark 5:35-37
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