A Healing Journey:
Silencing the doubters!
Scripture:
Mark 5:24–31
Jesus and the disciples were
walking through a large crowd of people when Jesus stopped and asked, “Who
touched my clothes?” The disciples were incredulous. “You see the crowd
pressing in on you, how can you say, who touched me?” They did not know that
Jesus can feel the touch of faith in any crowd. They did not realize that
something significant had happened.
We are so much like the
disciples. We are unaware that God turns toward us in response to our meager
faith, even when our thoughts of Him are almost crowded out by many other
things. God’s care for us is such that God will search for us in the midst of
our crowded lives, because He can discern our faintest cries for help. Don’t
believe the doubters in your mind. God does not want you to do better before
God touches you. God sees us with the understanding of the whole story of our
lives, and He calls us “beloved.”
Today write down each of the
negative thoughts that push you away from Jesus on a separate piece of paper.
Drop each one in a trash can and speak these words with each one you discard,
Jesus has come to make me whole!
Download the song, “Only God
Can Heal,” performed by Babbie Mason on
the CD entitled No Better Place. Let the words and music of the song wash over
your heart and mind and soul.
Prayer from Hymn of Kate B. Wilkinson: “May the mind of Christ my Savior, live in me
from day to day, by His love and power controlling
all I do and say.”
The Reverend Joanne Browne Jennings
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