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1 | If we told Jesus the whole truth... | Mark 5:33 | Emmaus | 169726 | ||
Kalos, It seems to me from reading the passage that the woman was healed and the miracle occurred in verse 29 before she "told Jesus everything" in verse 34. That being said, spiritual healing, the greatest miracle of which physical healing is only a shadow often, often requires an admission of our spiritually sick state. Sin like an addiction requires an admission of of our inability to save ourselves and the need of God and His power to change that state. So, "if we admit our sins, He is quick to forgive us." On the other hand if we are like the Pharisee in the parable of the Phrarisee and the Publican and do not admit our sinful state we will not be saved, the greatest miracle of all. One of the early Church fathers writing about the Sacrament of Confession, put it this way: "if are not willing to show our wound to the physician, he cannot heal it." The same applies to the confession of our sinfulness and the need of God's healing. The women with the issue of blood knew that physicians could not cure her only the touch of Jesus, even if only the touch of the fringe of his garment. It is interesting that under Levitical law anyone or anything touched by a menstrating woman became ritually inclean. But Jesus Jesus reverses this. When someone unclean , the woman, lepers, touch Him or are touches by him, they become clean. The power of God is greater than the power of the world or sin. Emmaus |
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2 | If we told Jesus the whole truth... | Mark 5:33 | Mommapbs | 169729 | ||
Kalos: I'm posting the short version here! C.S. Lewis said, "Put first things first and we get second things thrown in; put second things first and we lose both first and second things." Dwight Edwards (Experiencing Christ Within) puts this in very practical terms by suggesting that when we approach God as a "Fixer of life" with our needs as His prime agenda, our lives will fail to reflect His glory and we will fail to experience change and fulfillment in the deepest richest sense. He goes on to observe, "When we delight most in the spectacularness of God, when HIS glory becomes OUR highest agenda, we find a taste that thrills our souls PLUS a nonstop transformation in our lives along the way." From "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell: In accordance with Numbers 15:38-40, Jesus (as a Torah-observant Jewish Rabbi) would be wearing a prayer shawl. This woman, also a Jew(?) would be familiar with the prophecy of Malachi about the coming Messiah, "The sun of righteousness will rise with healing in His wings." (Mal 4:2) The word used by Malachi for wings is the same word that Numbers refers to the edge of a garment, to which the tassels where attached. So a legend grew that when Messiah appeared, there would be special healing powers in His kanaf, in the tassels of His prayer shawl. So, by this we see that this woman FIRST believed that Jesus was THE MESSIAH. But was she healed because of her belief or did God have something else in mind here? It could have remained a personal yet anonymous act but Jesus draws our attention to the healing. I notice that although she believed that Jesus was Messiah, instead of announcing it or embracing Him and acknowledging her recognition of Him, she sneaks up and grabs a piece of Him for herself. She acted upon her belief and received what she desired, healing - so perhaps the "whole truth" she told Jesus was her admission that instead of seeking Messiah first (His glory), she saw Him as a means to fix her physical need. And don't we do the same? Yet, Jesus tells her to go in peace. (Shalom is not just the absence of conflict- is the presence of the goodness of God. It is the presence of wholeness, completeness) Jesus is Shalom. May we go in peace today as well! mommapbs |
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