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Ardith Arnelle-Price
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Just The Edge of God
Religion & Spirituality
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Healing the Woman
The unnamed woman in the Bible with the issue of blood touched the tassel of Jesus’s clothing. (Luke 8:43-49) He immediately recognized that someone had touched Him. How did Jesus know power had left Him? This particular story in the Bible has baffled me for years. Because Jesus was both human and a deity, he had the advantage as a deity of knowing when the blood had cleansed someone of their sins (Leviticus 17:11) The woman’s faith was to be healed by stretching out her hand in the crowd and touching Jesus, then her twelve-year hemorrhage stopped. Jesus knew someone took healing power from Him. His immediate response, Jesus said (v 48), “then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” The key to the entire story is the woman touched the fringe of the tassel on his clothing because her faith was great, and she knew the Messiah Jesus had the power to heal her of sin and make her whole.
Book Excerpt
Just The Edge of God
The woman who touched Jesus could only give “praise to the Lord, the God of Israel” (v.68) because of the infirmity she had for 12 years gone. So a miracle from God happened at once. But also breathtaking to know “just a touch” of the fringe on the bottom of Jesus’s garment allowed the woman’s faith to expand.
If we as humankind believe in the Son of God, then we can repair our broken lives. Just akin to what Jesus said to the woman, at the well, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:14, NIV).” This revelation was hard for me to understand at first.
Now, I appreciate the significance of this phase in my life. You must look deep within yourself and find the meaning of the “water,” the purity of living the life God ordained us to live without sin and stay faithful and not sin daily and have the forethought to think there’re no consequences from your sin. Water is the purity and cleansing in your life.
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