"She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse."
Mark 5:26
It had been 12 long years. The woman in this story lived with her affliction every day and every
night. She went from one physician to the next, each one leaving her worse off than she was
before...until she had spent all she had, and had gotten no better, but rather grew worse.
When my eyes fell upon this story, my heart felt a churning of connection--I understood this
woman all too well--for she was me. And maybe she is you as well. But perhaps it is not your body
that is broken, but your heart. Maybe you have experienced the pain of rejection, the death of a
loved one...the failure of a relationship..the cold hard feeling of being alone. Perhaps your heart has
been broken, time after time, and you have gone to physician after physician, tried remedy after
remedy... drink after drink... pill after pill... guy after guy. Until you have spent all that you have, and
your heart has not grown better, but worse. There is a flow of pain within you that cannot be
stopped. A pain that no one understands. A suffering that nothing can heal.
"When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she
said, 'If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well. Immediately...she felt in her body that she
was healed of the affliction."
.....
"He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had happened to her, came and fell 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 affliction."
Mark 5: 27-34
This woman knew that no other thing on earth could cure her--she had tried them all. Jesus was her
last chance--her only hope. And all she had to do was reach out and touch Him, and she was healed.
Jesus felt this touch. He knew that power had left Him. He knows the touch of His children, and He
does not turn away from them but searches them out, as He did this woman. He specializes in fixing
broken things--broken people, broken hearts. Maybe you think that you are too far gone. That your
pain is incurable..
Maybe now you can say the words of Juliet with more passion than she herself said the words--
"Come weep with me, past cure, past help, past hope!" I'm sure this is how our woman in the story
was feeling...until she heard of Jesus. The woman, although filled with fear, told Him the whole truth.
She did not cover up her affliction in shame. She did not hide the fact that she had tried many other
ways before coming to Him...She fell before Him, and told Him of her past, and her present, and
then HE told her of her FUTURE.
"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."
He offers the same healing to you, today. He sees your brokenness, He knows how you have tried
path after path, and each one has lead you to deeper suffering and pain. He is waiting for you to reach
out to Him..and with only one touch, He can make you new. He has your future all mapped out, each
step working together for your good. He sees your past, and He is in your present...and now He tells
you of your future.
"So You will restore me, and make me live--the Lord was ready to save me."
He is ready to save You! He will bring you healing. Reach out and touch Him. You will never be
the same.
