Mark 5: 25-34 ESV And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down 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 disease.”
Jesus turned around. So awesome! Jesus will always turn around and call us a daughter or son.
Sometimes we might feel like Jesus won't like us because of the things we do. We serve a God who takes pleasure in us, who always loves us.
The woman in this story had been unclean for 12 years, she was an outcast. She tried to handle her problems by herself, but it just made her worse. So often we do this too, we turn to other things to numb the pain. The only way to be made whole is to get into the presence of Jesus. He wants us to come to Him, He loves us unconditionally. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
If Jesus sees us in pain or ashamed, His desire is to run to us and hold us and tell us He loves us.
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