And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
Mark 5:34 NKJV
When Jesus healed the woman with the hemorrhage, He commended her faith. She had exhausted all her resources on doctors to no avail. So, without addressing Jesus at all, she simply got near Him in a crowd and touched His clothes. Instantly His power healed her, and He knew that she had reached out to Him in a way no one else in the pressing throng had. But what was unusual about this woman’s touch? Why would Jesus commend her faith?
Maybe in her touch He felt her complete emptiness and need. She had nowhere else to turn and so He was the source of healing power. Her desperate faith was an act of utter dependence; it was Jesus or nothing.
Proverbs 3:5–6 tell us to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and not lean on our understanding. This is hard to do, however, since we prefer to trust in the Lord along with our own understanding of how things should work out. Though we have minds to read, think, and reason, ultimately our faith comes from abandoning hope in ourselves and risking it all on Jesus.
Lord, I am often blind to my own weakness and my need of You. Help me to trust You the way this sick woman did.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2013 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Leah Slawson.