Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”
The woman who touched the hem of Jesus’s cloak had been bleeding for twelve years. Twelve years. That’s a long time. And because of this bleeding, she was considered ceremonially unclean in Jewish culture, meaning she would have been an outcast, denied human contact, for twelve years. I can’t even imagine.
Luke 8:47a Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet.
And now she’s caught. She took a risk, touching the hem of Jesus’s cloak, believing that just that touch could heal her. And it did! Her faith allowed Jesus’s healing to work. And He doesn’t shame her, our Precious Savior, He calls her “Daughter,”–commentary says this is the only time in the Bible that He calls anyone “Daughter”–He tells her her faith has healed her, and He tells her to “Go in peace” after twelve years of agony.
Luke 8:47b In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.
Precious Savior, Your gentleness, Your compassion, Your grace is breathtaking. Thank You. Help me to treat others, all others, with the same compassion that You treated this woman, this outcast. Her faith in You healed her body, but Your kindness to her healed her soul. Help me to go and do likewise. Amen.
Luke 8:48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”
Have a blessed day.