The Gentle Healer
My heart resonated with this dear woman in the following story. Have you been there? Perhaps in a different way? Searching for inner peace and spiritual healing? Running to different sources of entertainment or fleeting comforts, only to be disappointed in the end? Food obsession? Drugs? Alcohol? The next relationship? Reach out and “touch Him,” by faith dear friend. His name is Jesus. He came to set the captives free! He came to save a, “wretch like me!”
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.
And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”
But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.
And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” (The Bible; Luke 8:43-48)
This hymn, written by Clara T. Williams says it all!
- All my life I had a longing
For a drink from some clear spring,
That I hoped would quench the burning
Of the thirst I felt within.- Refrain:
Hallelujah! I have found Him
Whom my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies my longings,
Through His blood I now am saved.
- Refrain:
- Feeding on the husks around me,
Till my strength was almost gone,
Longed my soul for something better,
Only still to hunger on. - Poor I was, and sought for riches,
Something that would satisfy,
But the dust I gathered round me
Only mocked my soul’s sad cry. - Well of water, ever springing,
Bread of life so rich and free,
Untold wealth that never faileth,
My Redeemer is to me.
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