As we look at Jesus and our life with Him during these days and weeks of Lent, we bump into this story of a woman who had waited a long time in sickness and suffering. Her desperation for help is clear and her faith in God’s goodness is even clearer.
She’d been ill for more than 12 years and had spent all she had seeking a cure from doctors to no avail. She heard about Jesus being in her neighbourhood one day and longed for healing. She was too timid and ashamed to come directly to Him and thought if she could just touch His clothes she could get healing. That’s exactly what happened. Listen to this:
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” … 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 5:30, 33-34
I think it’s good to bring ourselves back to the place where this sick woman brought herself. While it might have seemed that God had abandoned her and was not paying attention to her, yet she didn’t give in to that. When Jesus came to her village nothing was going to stop her from getting to him and her faith in God’s ability and willingness to meet with her was so strong.
Heavenly Father, I pray that we will hold strong in our faith, as this woman did, and pray and keep on praying, ask and keep on asking, seek and keep on seeking until that day that we understand everything. We want to stir up our faith today and trust that God, You are who You say You are and You do all that You promise to do.
We surrender our need to know. We surrender our need to have things happen in a particular way or on a particular day. We know that You are good and good to us and that is enough.
We are coming to You, pushing through all the things that seem impossible, and longing to just touch You so Your healing power can flow in us, through us, and we can live in the experience of “Your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
Our lives are in Your loving hands and there’s no better place to be today. Along with so many whose lives are recorded for us in the Bible, we will trust You no matter what we see in this day, in this season, or even in our lifetime. You are good. You are God. Our lives are in good hands. Amen
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