I finally did my quiet time after quite some time because of the recent increase of workload I encountered. And thank God He always tell me something as I read my bible.
This time I learned about more on faith from the story of the sick woman. It is about a woman who had been subjected to bleeding for twelve years. 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. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
I bet this story has been read many times but yet sometimes you won't learn much only after you read it again and again for a few more times. The story touches me because of the faith that was shown on this sick woman. Because of such great faith, she never even need to ask Jesus to heal her -- she simply BELIEVE she can be healed by simply touching the edge of his cloak. Do we have such faith that God help us all the time? Even in the times when you are in your deepest valley, can you hold on to that faith that He is there for you still?
This woman holds onto her faith for Jesus to heal her and hence she has been healed. Do you realise that often when we are put in places where faith is tested and our survival is being questioned, yet if we are able to hold onto God through such period of time, the greatest success in our lives will then be followed? This woman has tried out so many doctors but none can heal her. She is fighting for her own survival now. And in her most desperate times, she believe in Jesus to be her healer. She probably had a hard time travelling down to the places where she heard Jesus was there because she had already spent all she had for her medication over the years. She probably had a difficult time squeezing through the large crowd around Jesus when she got there. But this never stops her from going there -- and all she was there for is just to touch his cloak.
Wow...can you imagine that you go all the way, having to go through a lot of difficulty, but all you want to do is just something as small as touching someone's cloak? Would you be this determined to do so if you are in her shoe's? If taking God's words mean that you would have to place yourself in a position in which your family will be against you, your closest friends will leave you and everyone around will outcast you, can you just hold on to that faith? And after all these things that you need to go through, all you want in your heart is just to see His face and to have feast with him in the kingdom of heaven?
When the woman touched Jesus, Jesus knew and he asked who touched his clothes. In Mark 5:31 his disciples answered him saying, "You see the people crowding against you, and yet you can ask 'Who touched me?'" There are so many people there that everyone is touching Jesus. But yet only those who come before him with faith, God will know and He will healed you. The woman has come with great faith for Jesus to heal her and so when she touched Jesus by the edge of his cloak, Jesus knew. It was her faith for him that has healed her and freed herself from her suffering. God knows if we actually come before Him with or without faith. And it is also that through our faith for Him, our prayers are answered and we are healed by God. That is the attitude that we need to have as we come before God.
Maybe whatever we are doing now seem to be nothing great or we wander if they are worth doing. But how much do you value God and the promise He has given us? Everything counts in, no matter big or small that we do for him, He knows. If you believe He is worth everything, then if it requires you to give up everything, do it and believe that the God will never forsake you but to give you the greatest success in your life. So the morale of the story: Don't be afraid; just believe.
"He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.'" ~ Mark 5:34
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