She didn\u2019t let her issue keep her in exile.<\/strong> She didn\u2019t lead the crowd deter her. She pressed her way through the crowd.<\/p>\nit does not appear from the text that the woman with the issue of blood was\u00a0crying out \u201cUnclean! Unclean!\u201d If someone is shouting, \u201cUnclean! Unclean!\u201d\u00a0in a crowd, people would have taken note of where she was and what she was doing. But according to the scripture when she finally made her way to Jesus and touched Him, no one knew it was her until she identified herself.<\/p>\n
So she worked her way through the crowd, drew near to Jesus, and touched him. According to Jewish law, she should not have done this. She had to have known that since she was unclean, touching others would make them unclean as well. According to some interpretations of Jewish law, her behavior at this point would be sinful.<\/p>\n
Yet when she touched Jesus, she was healed immediately!<\/p>\n
Jesus knew that someone had touched Him and began to look around the crowd to determine who it was. He asked, “Who touched me?”<\/p>\n
His trusty disciples, always at the ready, basically asked Him, \u201cWho hasn\u2019t touched you Jesus?\u201d It sounds as if they were totally surround basically moving elbow to elbow so literally everybody is touching everybody. But the disciples didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s faith in action moved Jesus to look for and see her. Even when this woman with the issue of blood behaved in ways that others might have interpreted as sinful, Jesus saw the faith that was behind her actions, and she was healed.<\/p>\n
Do You have Issues?<\/h2>\n
Are you a believer with issues? Answer honestly!<\/p>\n
Maybe we don’t have “issues” like hers,\u00a0but we certainly have issues that need healing.<\/p>\n
So step out, look to Jesus, and move toward him in faith, trusting that He is able to heal and restore you. Whatever your issue is — even if some people think it is sinful and it makes you “unclean” — Jesus isn’t scared off or offended. He loves you and wants to restore you. So reach out to Jesus, touch Him, and be healed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This guest post by LT Lewis looks at the woman with an issue of blood in Mark 5 and invites us to put our faith into action. We need to put action to our faith (James 2:20) so that we too can not only hear about Jesus, touch Jesus and be healed by Jesus but that we may also move Him to see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1640,1336,2114,2041],"class_list":{"0":"post-36877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-faith","8":"tag-guest-post","9":"tag-mark-525-34","10":"tag-works","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n
The Woman with Issues (of blood)<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n