Desperate faith

I believe we don’t take our faith as seriously as we should. I believe that the way we treat our faith is often like we are just part of the crowd. We look at others who have faith and we want to have faith just like them. We don’t authenticate it, we don’t make it our own, it’s not as desperate as it should be.

In Luke 8, a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, fought her way through a large crowd, came up behind Jesus, and touched his cloak.

Immediately she was healed. 

So many people were at the house, and it was virtually impossible to get through the multitude...but one woman, the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, fought her way desperately through the crowd in order to touch Jesus. 

Imagine what this must have looked like...I’ve been in large crowds before and in large crowds pretty much everybody is a follower. Everyone is doing the same thing so why not do what everybody else is doing? 

This is what I fear our faith has turned into. We just want to be like everyone else and we don’t want to make things our own...

What do we have to be embarrassed of? I feel like that’s what holds us back sometimes. The woman was bleeding for twelve years, and she knew that she was going to do whatever she had to in order to get to Jesus. She had desperate faith.

What a difference there is between the crowds that are curious about Jesus and the few who reach out and touch him! Today, many people are vaguely familiar with Jesus, not anything in their lives is changed or battered by this passing acquaintance.

It’s only faith that releases God’s healing power. Are you just curious about God, or do you reach out to him in faith, knowing that his mercy will bring healing to your body, soul, and spirit.