If You Need A Touch From Jesus Christ Then This Is For You We come to Matthew Chapter 9 and verse 18. We have seen how Jesus Christ has been teaching and ministering and cleansing and healing in such a powerful and effective way and yet, the local people told Jesus to take His ministry elsewhere. When Jesus is not wanted, He will move on and go where He is needed and wanted. What a pleasant relief it must have been to Jesus, following that incident on the other side of the Lake, where He had been rejected and told to push off, to return to where He is among folk who would welcome Him and receive Him and want His ministry. They want what you have to give. Believe that! There are people out there who really want what you have to give, provided what you have to give is real and authentic. People are not interested in religion, but they are interested in the real Jesus Christ, as He is portrayed and presented in the Scriptures. A man named Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, comes right up to Jesus Christ, and falls down at Jesus feet, and pleads with Jesus to come to His home. Jairus was a deeply religious man, a local leader, and he has a massive need in his life. We can be committed to God and still have huge problems. The best thing to do is - bring them to Jesus. We have to be able to adjust our pre-arranged programmes and plans and routines to turn from what may be deeply engrossing us, to some more urgent matter. The perfect example of this is, as in everything, is to be seen in Jesus. Jairus says, Come to my home. I have one daughter and she is twelve and she is dying. Jesus, she is very ill. And, Jesus agrees to go to the home of Jairus. Jesus and Jairus are walking along the road, surrounded by thronging crowds, and an unnamed woman, who had been haemorrhaging for 12 years, tried to get close to Jesus. She had been going to all the surgeries. She had seen all the surgeons. She had spent all her money on various treatments, and nothing had worked. She is unhealed and still bleeding, and after 12 years of this she is weary and weak, and she comes to Jesus desiring to be healed, but determined to remain anonymous. She had to move quickly to get through - to push through the crowd somehow - without being noticed. There was no way she could make an appointment with Jesus on this occasion, but in her mind, she is determined to touch and receive a touch from the Living God. She comes up from behind and touches the edge of His cloak - His outer garment - and she experienced healing - and suddenly she is no longer bleeding. Jesus asks in Luke Chapter 8, Who touched me? And Peter and all the people say, O, be fair - the crowd is bound to touch You. Look at all the people bustling around. But, Jesus knew something special had happened. Jesus knew that someone had touched Him, and someone had been healed. Jesus realised that something good had flowed out of Him. Most of the healing miracles is Jesus Christ touching someone in need, but here it is someone in need touching Jesus. You can do that today, by faith. Touch Him. The woman saw and realised that she could no longer hide and remain anonymous. She had wanted a private blessing. She wanted private ministry. She wanted to get her need met and perhaps run away inconspicuously, without anyone knowing, and without sharing what Jesus had done. Jesus would not on this occasion allow her to do that. This He was not going to permit. Sometimes, Jesus wants things out in the open, with no private blessings in a little corner, and no slipping in and slipping out. She had faith. In verse 20 she is an unnamed needy woman, but in verse 22 Jesus calls her ‘daughter’, and Jesus takes time to hear her story and to comfort her, and to give her not only healing, but wholeness, and He also sends her home in peace. One other lesson arises here too – Jesus knew the difference between being bumped in the crowd and being touched by someone in desperate need. Jesus was like a charged battery which discharges when touched and yet, it was not the touch that healed, but her faith. Are you reading this today and you are desperately in need of a touch of mercy, or love, or forgiveness, or healing? Then read these passages through, and touch Him, and let Him touch you. (This weeks Word from Scotland - all previous articles can be found in the archives at Studylight.org and liveasif.org - do have a wee search!)
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:25:52 +0000
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