Often we feel overwhelmed by circumstances and problems, unable to see our way out of the maze of life, troubled, afraid and despondent. In Mark 5, we read of different situations and circumstances which were truly overwhelming: a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years and who wasn’t getting any better… a father whose daughter was perilously ill. Debilitating illness and the unfairness of a child’s dying seem to us to be completely insoluble problems, but in this chapter, we see desperation meeting Jesus… and finding that in Him, there are ways out we can’t ever imagine.
The key in both cases was faith. To the woman healed by just one touch of Jesus’s garment, Jesus said, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.‘ (Mark 5:34) To those who felt death was the end and therefore there was no further need to bother Jesus, He said, “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” (Mark 5:36)
What things do you need to believe for today? What miracles do you need to see? Jesus doesn’t change. He’s still capable of doing the miraculous, the unexpected, the impossible. Let’s believe Him and touch Him today. Let’s not be like those who had no faith and hindered His work (Mark 6:5-6), but let’s be like those who reached out, touched Him and were transformed.
