"Daughter"(Mark 5:25-34)

 Mark 5:25-34

Jesus was on his way to see Jairus' house to heal his twelve-year-old daughter. A crowd had surrounded Jesus and as people were pressing around him a sick women touched Jesus' clothes with the intention of being healed. What happens next is a miracle. The woman is healed, and Jesus knows that His healing power has left him. The healing is amazing, but more amazing is that Jesus was able to determine that someone had touched him to be healed. After the woman confess what had happened, Jesus gives a strong and pertinent message to all Christians regardless of their status or gender.

 

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Mark 5:34 ESV

 

The sick women had lost everything and suffered trying to be healed over many years. No doubt her hope had been dashed many times and may have even been conned by people offering promises they knew they could not keep or worse, sincere people trying to heal her but failing in their attempts and further crushing her spirit.

 

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.

Mark 5:25-26 ESV

 

Obviously, the women had heard that Jesus was a healer and wanted to be cured by him. Jesus was her last hope, but how could a woman, and a sick one at that, get an audience with Jesus. She believed so much in Jesus that she convinced herself that just by touching Jesus' clothes she could be healed.

 

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.”

Mark 5:27-28 ESV

 

Miracles do happen and science cannot explain everything. Often modern medicine cannot fix all our health problems, and it often cannot heal them completely at every level. In this case, the woman not only was healed physically, but she had received salvation from Jesus.

 

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.

Mark 5:33 ESV

 

The woman told Jesus the whole truth. She left nothing out but spoke to Jesus about what Jesus had done for physically but also spiritually. The woman confesses that Jesus is the truth and the way to eternal life.

 

If we do not embrace the truth completely that God gives through His son, Jesus, our lives will be full of confusion, pain, and doubt. We cannot just hear the word; we must experience the word. Jesus’ response is simple and for all sons and daughters of God.

 

 

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Mark 5:34 ESV

 

It is our faith that allows the power of God to work in our lives.

 

For some Christians, they come to church on Sundays to get an eternal insurance; however, these Christians will not experience the power of God because they do not put in the effort that is needed to do their job.

 

Jesus also tells her to go in peace. Before encountering Jesus, she did not have peace in her life. Her life before was suffering and loss, but now she has Jesus with her. What more could she want? What more could anyone want. People who have heard about Jesus will not have this peace. The woman had heard about Jesus, but it was not until she touched Jesus that her life was restored. It is the people who have experienced Jesus who will have peace.

 

Sons and daughters of God have the privilege to have the peace of God and not practice sin. Jesus gives us the ability not to live in sin and be free of its grip. Let us  practice that privilege while doing the good works set before us by God.