"For nothing is impossible with God."
Luke 1:37
Consider a woman who suffered bleeding for 12 years which
made her ceremonially unclean according to Jewish law (see Mark 5:25-34). She had seen all the doctors and specialists,
and had tried every possible remedy.
Nothing worked. Instead of
getting better, she only got worse. In addition to being sick, weak, and in
consistent pain, her husband had divorced her, family had quietly backed away
from her, she had no friends, couldn't even go to church. Unable to work, she had finally spent all she
had on doctors and medicine. Where to turn?
What to do? Life had become for her a mission impossible.
One day, she became sick and tired of being sick and tired.
She had heard of a man called Jesus. He
was to be in her town the next day. She
had overheard snatches of conversation about how He went around doing good and
healing all who were under the power of the devil. Could He be her one last hope for
deliverance? Would He talk to her? If she touched Him, He'd be made unclean. Was
it possible for her to be healed? Would
He charge her anything? What would
people say?
The more she thought about the man Jesus, the more a plan
unfolded in the recesses of her mind.
Jesus, a Jewish Rabbi, would be wearing a prayer shawl. A blue thread
would be hanging from each of its four corners. If she could get through the crowd of people
unnoticed, and touch any one of those blue tassels, she'd be healed. On her
knees, she slowly but surely made her way through the crowd. Fully persuaded, absolutely determined,
persistently diligent, the blue tassel on his prayer shawl was but an arm's
length away. And then, as she touched it, she knew that she knew that she knew
that her impossible mission had been accomplished.
Will God do the same for you? Yes! "For nothing is impossible with
God."
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