Let Jesus be Jesus!

'Daughter, your faith has made you well, go in peace, and be healed of your disease,' Jesus said to the woman who had suffered mercilessly with an unclean hemorrhage for 12 years. (Mk 5:34) She had taken great courage and pushed through a crowd, just to touch Jesus' hem, certain that if she did she would be healed, because she knew Him to be God's Son. He felt power go from Him, and stopped the crowd's jostling to speak to her. His words are telling.

1.     He calls her, 'Daughter.' Her faith and deep love for Jesus had lifted her past just respecting Him, into family relationship with Him. She worshipped Him and loved Him more than any other person in her life.

2.     Her faith made her well. Her faith in what? In who Jesus is. She had heard of all that He was doing and had come to believe that He was bringing God's Kingdom to earth. She knew He was Son of God and believed to the uttermost that He would heal her. Knowing who He was, she had no room for doubt!

3.     'Go in Peace', Jesus said. He bestowed the Kingdom of God on her. 'Peace' is the outworking of God's Kingdom. Shalom, in the Old Testament, Peace, with and from God, in the New Covenant. 'Let Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,' we pray. She believed God's Kingdom would come upon her, and Jesus responded by bestowing the Kingdom on her, through healing!

4.     Be healed of your disease. His word, spoken to her was powerful to sustain the healing she had received. His will to bless her was done on earth!

May you come to know Jesus still more intimately. May you receive grace to love Him more than anyone or anything else. May you be so aware of His awesome power as God, and your heart so primed to receive His Kingdom in and through your life, that He works His miracles in and through you! May His Kingdom come and His will be done in and through you!