Jesus, we lift You on our praises,so every eye can see Your face, Your power and grace, behold You as You really are.
Brighter than all the stars of heaven, our worship is for You alone, we build You this Throne of Praise, we build You this Throne of Praise.
A soulless emptiness occupied the eyes of the forsaken; an unwavering look that neither offend nor intrude. Blank, void of any sign of life.
Sorrow welled up in His heart. His love for her uncaused, compassion for one marginalised. He desires to restore wholeness in her life.
A woman who had suffered a condition of hemorrhaging for twelve years - a long succession of physicians had treated her, and treated her badly, taking all her money and leaving her worse off than before -
had heard about Jesus. She slipped in from behind and touched his robe. She was thinking to herself, "If I can put a finger on his robe, I can get well." The moment she did it, the flow of blood dried up.
She could feel the change and knew her plague was over and done with. At the same moment, Jesus felt energy discharging from him. He turned around to the crowd and asked, "Who touched my robe?"
His disciples said, "What are you talking about? With this crowd pushing and jostling you, you're asking, 'Who touched me?' Dozens have touched you!"
But he went on asking, looking around to see who had done it. The woman, knowing what had happened, knowing she was the one, stepped up in fear and trembling, knelt before him, and gave him the whole story.
Jesus said to her, "Daughter, you took a risk of faith, and now you're healed and whole. Live well, live blessed! Be healed of your plague." Mark 5:25-34 The Message.
This woman would have been shunned by people in her society as anyone having contact with her would have been made ceremonially unclean.
When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. Leviticus 15:25 NIV.
Having exhausted all her wealth and being treated badly by those whom she had turned to for help, she was left with nothing but faith that Jesus would heal her. So she reached out to him.
When Jesus felt that power had gone out from him, he was graciously determined to commend the woman of her faith and affirm wholeness and healing in her life.
On the contrary, it was the disciples' disbelief that Jesus had asked such an oxymoronic question and their disrespectful retort that totally exposed their ignorance on matters of faith and who Jesus was;
and the value of a person to him, especially the overlooked ones. Are we today displaying similar lack of faith and understanding in who Jesus is? In how a person is valued in His eyes?
Jesus, we lift You on our praises,so every eye can see Your face, Your power and grace, behold You as You really are.
Brighter than all the stars of heaven, our worship is for You alone, we build You this Throne of Praise......because in Your eyes, we have found what we are really really worth......all Your love.
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