God Wants to Heal Us…

I’ve read this passage so many times, but today a thought came to me that I’ve never had before (once again proving God’s word is alive and active). The woman with the chronic problem of bleeding touched Jesus robe and was healed. It was her faith in Him that healed her. The thought I had was this: God wants to heal us. It’s in His (for lack of a better way to describe it with words) DNA. Jesus was all about restoring people, healing them of their infirmities. He didn’t even have to try. Just by touching His garment the woman was instantly healed. If God’s Being is so powerful, that if we touch His robe we are healed, then what does that say about His desire for us? His love for us? His priorities on this earth? If He is for us, who can stand against us? Think about that for a second. Does it change the way you view God? Does it change the way you view yourself? It certainly did for the suffering woman.

24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around Him. 25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. 26 She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind Him through the crowd and touched His robe. 28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch His robe, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.30 Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from Him, so He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched My robe?”31 His disciples said to Him, “Look at this crowd pressing around You. How can You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”32 But He kept on looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of Him and told Him what she had done. 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.” Mark 5:24-34