scripture
Mark 5:30-32
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
background
A synagogue ruler, named Jairus, comes to Jesus and asks him to come heal his daughter who is deathly ill. While in route to this man’s house there’s a crowd that presses in on them because they want to see Jesus. In the midst of the crowd a woman reaches out and touches Jesus’ cloak. She touches his cloak because she believed that in doing so she would be healed.
thought
Jesus paused on his way to heal this man’s daughter. He was about serious business. This was life or death. But he stopped. He did not see this woman as a distraction but met her need right there. Do we miss out on God’s work because we are too busy going about our own? Are the things that we see as distractions really the good deeds that God has predestined for us to do?
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