September 20, 2022

Daily Devotion:

“Your Faith Has Healed You“

Mark 5:30

New International Version

30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

Healed by merely touching Jesus' cloak? Oh, to be able to do that our-Have cancer? Touch Jesus' cloak! Suffering from arthritis? Reach for his cloak! In so brief a space, we can only begin to touch on all the dynamics involved in this incident. For instance, what power-surge did Jesus Feel coursing through his body when the woman's hand touched him? And How but divinely did his body discern that hers was different from all the other hands reaching out to touch the popular prophet? Yet, if divinely, why did Jesus Have to ask who touched him? The great mystery of God-in-flesh remains! Butthead most intriguing question is: Was this humble woman healed by Touching Jesus or by being touched? Jesus' answer was, “Daughter, your faith has healed you." Had she never been touched by Jesus, the woman herself never would have reached out in faith to touch him. Not all of Jesus' healings involved touching, but many did. He touched the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf, and the cold hands of the dead-as if the source of the miracle. But it is when Jesus touches the heart that his power is most transforming. Through faith in Christ, the spiritually blind can see, the spiritually deaf can hear, and the spiritually dead are raised to new life. Few believers in history have personally touched either Jesus or his clothes but all believers have been touched by Jesus in a way none of us ever could've expected. And, as with Jesus that day, it is in our souls that the power of God's Holy Spirit courses freely to transform, renew, and even heal.

The groping-question is: Have I wistfully hoped For God's transforming power in my life, yet never allowed him close enough to truly touch my soul?