In church today we heard the story from Mark 5, of a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years; she touched Jesus cloak and was healed. Most Bible translations talk about her doing that because she believed that Jesus could heal her.
I learned the story in a translation that talked about her wanting to be made whole and another translation talked about her wanting to be safe. I like to think of her as approaching Jesus, not with the thought that if she touches him she will stop bleeding, but more in recognition of him being someone that she cannot help but reach out to; she sees something of who he is. I like to think of her seeing him, not as a magic man or special sort of doctor, but realising as she sees him there, that she has to connect with him, and a result of that reaction to him, she is healed.
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I was taken by the fact that Roy said she was unclean and wouldn't be able to be touched by or touch anyone. Yet she reaches out and touches the one person who she really shouldn't have touched without serious consequences occuring, but Jesus shows his infinite love by her being healed rather than rebuking her like so many others had probably done throughout her life. Yet again we see an example of just how far Jesus will go to accept people whatever their situation. My prayer continues to be that we will always realise that Jesus loves us no matter what.
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