"And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole."
Mark 6:56
This is super cool... what an amazing thing that must have been, especially for people like the woman with an issue of blood who had tried everything and felt they had no other options, and then to have the very Christ in your midst and to be able to reach out to him and be healed.
And I guess my question is... since God is an unchangeable being, don't we *still* have this opportunity? Isn't God still willing to heal us as we reach out to him?
I know that he is. I think the challenge for us is to first, stop imagining that healing is impossible. We get it into our minds and our hearts that we're just bad at things, or we were just born a certain way, or that if we haven't found a solution yet, there isn't one. And I think part of the point is that with God, there is *always* a solution.
That's not to say that it is his will to solve every problem for us without any effort or education on our part... but just as he healed everyone who reached out and touched him in this verse, he will also heal us, even if it isn't in exactly the way we wanted. Making someone whole might not always be removing a particular impediment. Perhaps he will heal our hearts rather than our injuries, or our hatred rather than our sickness. But what of it? He knows what we truly need more than we do, and as we come to him he will do all that he can to help us and heal us, and teach us how to make our lives whole. :)
Today, let's make the effort to reach out to Christ with faith, to be made whole.
Mark 6:56
This is super cool... what an amazing thing that must have been, especially for people like the woman with an issue of blood who had tried everything and felt they had no other options, and then to have the very Christ in your midst and to be able to reach out to him and be healed.
And I guess my question is... since God is an unchangeable being, don't we *still* have this opportunity? Isn't God still willing to heal us as we reach out to him?
I know that he is. I think the challenge for us is to first, stop imagining that healing is impossible. We get it into our minds and our hearts that we're just bad at things, or we were just born a certain way, or that if we haven't found a solution yet, there isn't one. And I think part of the point is that with God, there is *always* a solution.
That's not to say that it is his will to solve every problem for us without any effort or education on our part... but just as he healed everyone who reached out and touched him in this verse, he will also heal us, even if it isn't in exactly the way we wanted. Making someone whole might not always be removing a particular impediment. Perhaps he will heal our hearts rather than our injuries, or our hatred rather than our sickness. But what of it? He knows what we truly need more than we do, and as we come to him he will do all that he can to help us and heal us, and teach us how to make our lives whole. :)
Today, let's make the effort to reach out to Christ with faith, to be made whole.
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