Just touch Jesus

I was reading a very familiar passage today and it stood out to me in a different way than it had before.  It keeps burning in my heart so I am going to try to share some of the thoughts I had along with the passage in hopes that it will help someone understand that all we need is to trust in Jesus.

Mark 5:25-29

New International Version (NIV)

²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ She 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. ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

 

In this passage I see a woman who has done it all.  She has tried everything she can to fix her problem and given everything she had to fix her problem.  Yet as the text shows us...."instead of getting better she grew worse."  

 

Many times the things we try to do end up making it worse in the end.  Have you tried to make yourself feel better by any of these.....relationships, money, career, kids, marriage, divorse, sex, drugs, alcohol, going to church, not going to church..ect, the list can go on with what we will try to do to make ourselves better in our sickness.  We will go to many people, religions, spend all our time, money and efforts on overcoming our suffering. 

 

Thankfully, this woman in this passage realized the only answer to her problem was getting to Jesus.  She had faith to believe that if she just touched His clothes, that she would be healed of her suffering...and she was right!  When she came to Jesus in faith and trusting Him that only He was able to cure her disease....Immediatley she was freed from her suffering.

 

In our sin, we are suffering and will continue to suffer for eternity for that sin.  There is nothing that can cure that sin, except the Lord Jesus Christ.  He has paid for the cure of that sin, He has made the way, the only way for mine and your sin to be removed from us.  And when we come to Him and have the faith that this woman had.....He will say to you as He did this woman...

Mark 5:34

New International Version (NIV)

³⁴ He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

 

You enter into a personal relationship with God and He becomes your Father and you become His Son or Daughter.

 

Now folks...thats just real good news!

 

blessings!