Mark 5:30 "At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it"
Are you part of the curious crowd around Jesus, or did you come here to be healed?
To actually access the power of Christ you must reach out. It is a deliberate act, born of the awareness that you are sick, and He can heal you. As Jesus pressed through the curious onlookers and paparazzi of the day, someone desperate for change, reached out and grazed his cloak, and something happened.
Immediately He asks "who touched my clothes?"... then He ignores His disciples since they clearly didn't understand the question.
Hanging around Jesus, bumping into Jesus, being curious about Jesus, is very different than reaching out in your uncleanness, and hoping to touch His garments because you know it will change you.
One woman in a crowd of hundreds was there to do business with God. She was painfully aware that the span between His righteousness and her sin was so wide that even approaching Him seemed presumptuous. So she grazed his garment with her hand ... the smallest act of faith, and everything changed.
God Himself stopped in His tracks ...and commended her belief.
So again, are you curious or are you hear to be changed?
Have you realized your need and come to the only place you know you can be healed?
The smallest act of faith born from the realization that you need redemption is all it takes. Your tiny belief will get God's attention, and that is all you need.
She touched His garment .. He did the rest.
Evaluate why you approach God. Don't come to be in the audience. But dare to reach out and in faith and touch the hem of His garment ... and like this woman , you too can be changed.
“I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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