Past Hope

"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.