12/3/07 - Transformed Man and Healed Woman

This morning I read Mark 5: 1-43.

In the beginning of these verses it describes Jesus encounter with a man with many demons living inside of him. His name was legion, Israel being a Roman Colony at the time they would have know what a legion was and that as many as 3,000 to 6,000 Roman Soldiers were in a legion.

Mk 5:18 -19 stood out to me more this morning. In these two verse a man’s life had been transformed and his immediate reaction was to follow Jesus. But Jesus tells the to, “go tell you family everything that the Lord has done for you.” As I read this I thought to myself that we need not only encouraging new people that experience Jesus’ transforming power but also in our own lives we need telling our family, friends and those we come into contact everyday what the Lord is doing for us.

In the next section I read about a woman that had been bleed for 12 years and tried everything and paid lots of doctors and did not get any better put all of her hope and faith in what she heard that this man named Jesus could heal her.

I thought to myself as I read this that we face problems all the time and we search the world over looking for answers but find none then we turn to Jesus for help. Why is that? And when we do turn to Him, do we do it with such faith as this woman that even if we can only get to the fringe of Jesus clothes our problems will be taken care of.

My prayer this morning is that as we go through this month connecting daily with God through His word and in prayer that we will have the faith that this woman had that God can more than handle the problems we are facing and that we would go to Him knowing that He will take care of them.