I am not a physically strong person.
Because my stamina is low, I am easily drained by large crowds of people.
So there I was, seated on a mat in the middle of a field, participating as an extra in the Feeding of the 5,000. The significance of this was huge for me!
In awe I watched the flurry of activity going on all around me.
In awe I watched the film crew. In awe I watched the excited energy of all the 5K extras around me. I couldn’t help but think: If I had lived back in Jesus’s time, I totally would have been the woman who tried to touch Jesus’s hem (Mark 5:24-34; Matthew 9:20-22; Luke 8:43-48).
My strength is so weak, and I am so shy there is no way I could have asserted myself to get the attention necessary to ask Jesus for healing.
My health has always been frail, so I am used to watching from the sidelines … I totally would have aspired just to touch Jesus’s hem.
It’s one thing to read about Jesus’s ministry while sitting on my comfy couch at home. It’s a totally different thing to live it out experientially … to be there in a crowded mass of humanity … knowing there’s no way I would ever have had the strength to get to the front to ask for healing.
But the thing is … Jesus knew! Jesus knew all about the woman who needed to be healed. Jesus knew she believed in him! He knew her faith! And he allowed power to flow from himself to heal her.
What a comforting thought … as I sit on my mat near the back of the crowd. I don’t have to try hard to get to Jesus. Jesus knows me! Jesus knows my weaknesses. Jesus knows my faith. And Jesus is taking care of me!
#thechosen
