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From the Word: Daughter, your faith has made you well!
Posted on November 14th, 2009 in Faith, From the Word by Fred McKinnon
34 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.
(Mark 5:45, ESV – YouVersion.Com)
I’m reading through Mark in my “Daily Reader” program right now, but I’m taking my time in this book. It’s so easy to rush through the Bible once you’ve read through it a few times. You assume “I’ve read that already”. I found myself thinking that as I was reading the story of the “woman with the issue of blood” in Mark, chapter 5.
As I meditated on Jesus’ response to the woman, confessing that she was the one who had touched him, I noticed a few things:
1. He calls her Daughter. It’s capitalized. Not woman, not lady, not child … but Daughter. I think that is significant.
2. It was her faith that brought about her healing. Of course, the power went out of Jesus, He’s the source of healing. But it was her faith that activated it.
3. As he sends her on her way, he says “and be healed of your disease”. It’s almost as if He is saying “don’t stop believing, don’t forget about it now – be constantly in faith, vigorous, and continue to walk in this healing”. Like that as she goes, she should keep that healed condition. Maybe if the symptoms could return, maybe she would fight wars in her mind about it coming back … and that’s why He told her “go AND BE HEALED” (but she was already healed).
Do you ever ask yourselves these kinds of questions as you study God’ Word?
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Great thought this morning. I love how you picked up on Jesus making the encounter personal when it appears the woman wanted to remain ‘invisible’. I believe this encounter demostrates that Christ came to make a personal connection to all that need healing. Be it physical or better yet, spiritual.
To answer you last question… I’m always asking questions while reading scripture. Like; who is hearing this, why that reaction, what was the need, why say it that way…
Great insight, Fred. And yes, I quite often ask questions when studying the Scriptures. The results are usually an impartation of a deeper truth than I previously had. After all, didn’t Jesus say, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.”
I heard one guy say there were two daughters in the story, one who been living for twelve years and the other who had bee n dying for twelve years.