Daughter, Your Faith has Saved You

~~~ Wisdom 1: 13-15; 2:23-24 ~~~ Psalm 30 ~~~ 2 Cor.8:7,9, 13-15 ~~~ Mark 5: 21-43 ~~~

Daughter, your faith has saved you.

(Mark 5:34)

The woman in today's gospel who had been bleeding for twelve years and the little twelve year old have more in common than you might think.

Both of these daughters wanted to choose life.

The child was choosing life through the intercession of her father.

The woman chose life by taking action herself to seek out Jesus.

The two females were blessed with restored life through the love and mercy of Jesus. 

"...For he fashioned all things that they might have being..."

(Wisdom)

Paul tells us that we live and move and have our being in him.

(Acts 17:28)

Daughter, your faith has saved you.

(Mark 5:34)

The adult woman in this gospel had been suffering for over a decade.

She was in a desparate state of mind.

The psalm chosen for today expresses how distraught she must have felt.

She may have even prayed this very psalm.

The Lord did indeed rescue her from her despair.

He had pity on her because she allowed her faith to lead her actions.

It was through her faith that she found the courage and

the strength to even approach Jesus.

Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.

I can just imagine how her long years of mourning were suddenly

 turned into joyful dancing. I can just visualize how this woman

went about spreading the good news of her healing. I can hear her passionately

giving thanks to the Lord; perhaps even singing hymns of praise

morning noon and night.

Today it is difficult for us to understand what her life was truly

like as an outcast of society.

How difficult it must have been for her to just survive from one day to the next.

How physically, emotionally, and spiritually deprived she had become over time.

You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
(Psalm 30)

If you look closely at your life what causes you to dance with joy?

Have you found healing of mind, body, or spirit?

Have you ever felt close to despair because of a long term situation?

I invite you to give thanks to the Lord for all that he has done for you.

Thank the Lord in advance for the healing that is yet to come in your life.

Daughter, your faith has saved you.

(Mark 5:34)