Reaching Out for Jesus | Meditation on Mark 5:24-34
She never lost hope. Even after 12 years of painful suffering. Even after spending all she had.
Even after becoming an outcast that was separated from her community.
When she heard Jesus was near, she took the risk. In faith, she went. In faith, she reached out and touched Jesus.
And her faith was rewarded.
While we may not experience healing on this side of eternity, Jesus has much comfort and peace to offer us. As you meditate on this passage, allow the Lord to not only comfort you but also to help you notice what he has for you in these words.
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The full meditation text is:
Mark 5:24–34, NIV
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 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.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
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