SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/3/2021 10:17 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Jesus
Was Touchable and Impartial”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
9:20-22
Message of the verses: “20 And a woman who
had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and
touched the fringe of His cloak; 21 for she
was saying to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I will get
well." 22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Daughter, take
courage; your faith has made you well." At once the woman was made well.”
It
can be see here that as Jesus, along with Jairus and His disciples, and also a
great many people were all moving to the house of Jairus. What happens next may not have been so
obvious to many people, but Jesus knew that someone had touched Him as the
other gospel writers give more details to this event. Jesus knew because power had gone forth from
Him. MacArthur writes “As Jesus was on
His way to minister to a single desperate person among a large number of needy
persons, His attention was called to still another single individual—one whom a
less sensitive person might never have noticed.
Again, an interruption became an opportunity.” I have to say that especially we as believers
can have similar circumstances happen to us as there are times when the Holy
Spirit is causing us to have a “divine appointment.”
John
MacArthur stated on one of his sermons that this whole section of Scripture is
like a sermon within a sermon and the inside sermon is this woman with an issue
of blood, and so that is where we are as we look at these verses, and it is
there that we can see a couple of similar thing. First both this woman and Jairus knew that it
was only Jesus who could help them out of their disparate situations. Second is that this woman had had this issue
of blood for twelve years, and Jairus’ daughter was twelve years old. The entire time that this little girl was
alive, bringing laughter and happiness to Jairus family this woman was going
through a very difficult time, probably the most difficult time of her life.
We
are not sure what caused the problem with this woman, perhaps it was caused by
a tumor or other disease of the uterus, but we do know that this caused her to
be ceremonially unclean according to the Old Testament law, therefore
continually she was unclean. MacArthur
writes “Mark, not seeking to protect the medical profession, tells us that she ‘had
endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had
and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse’ (Mark 5:26). The physician Luke, perhaps concerned about
the reputation of his profession, says that this particular case was humanly incurable,
that she ‘could not be healed by anyone’ (Luke 8:43).
I
want to go over some of the things that this woman had to go through because of
the physical issue that she had, and that also would include all of the discomfort
that it would cause her, but there was much more that went along with this
problem because she was Jewish and because she was under the Law of Moses. Let us look at what the law has to say about
this and then perhaps it will give us a clue to what she was going
through. “25 ‘Now if a woman has a
discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity,
or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue
as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean. 26 ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of her
discharge shall be to her like her bed at menstruation; and every thing on
which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness at that time. 27 ‘Likewise,
whoever touches them shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water
and be unclean until evening” (Lev. 15:25-27).
This paints a clear picture of what this poor woman had to go
through. It does not say that this woman
was married, but if she were that would present a problem to both her and also
to her husband as everything that she sat on would be unclean, not to mention
that there would be no intimacy between them for those twelve hears. I think that we can at this point better
understand what this woman was going through at this time and why she was so
desperate to come to Jesus for both physical and spiritual healing, something
we will talk more about as we continue on through these verses.
Spiritual meaning for my life: In these two people I can see how desperate
that they were to get help from Jesus, and in both cases it included the
spiritual help that all people need in their lives, that is being born from
above. I have to say that it is good for
me to see the desperation that these people had, and when I go through things
that only the Lord, through His Spirit can help me I need to be just as
desperate.
My Steps of Faith for Today: The first thing that I need to do when I have
spiritual issues is to go to the Lord in prayer telling Him the things that are
upsetting me so that He can help.
6/3/2021 11:03 AM
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