24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him.25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding.26 She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe.28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.”29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
30 Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, ”Who touched my robe?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, `Who touched me?’”
32 But he kept on looking around to see who had done it.33 Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done.34 And he said to her, ”Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.” – Mark 5:24-34
Faith makes you do crazy things. Faith allows you to believe the impossible. Faith makes the unseen visible. This lady had spent everything she had in order to get well. I am sure that many of her doctors meant well and wanted her to recover from her sickness but to no avail. But one day she heard about Jesus. I love that. She went from being completely hopeless and lacking faith just to live to acting out in crazy faith.”For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Faith was so great in her that day that she didnt have to have a face to face encounter with Jesus, she didnt have to talk to him, she just wanted to touch him, just touch his robe – that is crazy faith.
I want to have faith like that. Faith that is crazy. Maybe crazy faith is just normal faith. Maybe we are too scared to have faith like that. But that is the faith that we need to have. This kind of faith puts us face to face with the “author and perfecter of our faith”. I love what Jesus said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.” It wasn’t her persistence, or determination to get healed. It was her faith.
I want faith like that.
