Go in Peace
Good morning Immanuel! Take heart, Jesus still loves the interruptions of desperate faith!
“And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” (Mark 5:24-34)
Crowds press in from all sides. Many hands reach out to touch Jesus. Only one hand channels the healing power of God by faith. But impersonal healing is incomplete healing in the eyes of our Lord. Everything must wait while he searches for the one among the ninety-nine. She who approached from behind must look into the eyes of love and receive a further blessing, “Daughter, go in peace.”
Take heart, friends, Jesus still loves the interruptions of desperate faith! And an out-of-options sufferer He will not despise.
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