1/27/12 Come To Jesus In Our Moments Of Desperation (Luke 8:40-44).
Come To Jesus In Our Moments Of Desperation (Luke 8:40-44).
I hope this helps someone out there….. Verses 40-44, “Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. 41 Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. 43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years,[a] but no one could heal her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped”
Jesus returned to a welcoming crowd that made way for a ruler to come to Jesus. This ruler prayed as a desperate father for his dying daughter. At the very same time, a desperate woman also made her way to Jesus with quiet determination and incognito. No one could help her either, but only Jesus. She believed a mere touch of his clothes would heal her. She believed holiness and God’s power surrounded Jesus and would make her body clean.
I can see that both of these people had conditions that no human being could solve. They were both in desperate situations. What amazes me is that they came to Jesus for their solution. Too often we sit in our failures and our own desperation, thinking that there is nothing we can do or we feel sorry for ourselves or we simply wait for thing to go from bad to worse and we say, “Oh well, at least I still have my health and I am not in prison and I still have a roof over my heads.” When we think like this we are basically waiting for the end to come. Through this passage, I discover that we can come to Jesus Christ to be saved. We should not come to Jesus as a last resort but if we do, Jesus accepts this. Jesus is the creator God. (John 1:3) He can affect real positive change in our lives under any circumstance.
I have good health. I am not desperate materially. But I am in desperate need in several others ways. I need to have godly wisdom on how to relate to those close to me, my family. I need God’s wisdom and long suffering patience on how to deal with my kids growing independence. I am also helpless in being able to communicate the gospel and raise disciples among the young people of this generation. I also fall into despair and fatalism from time to time. Sometime I get depressed. These are areas where I feel helpless. But I don’t have to roll over and die. No…I can come to Jesus with faith. He always gives me a way out. He always shows me the most fruitful path. He gives me strength to do the right thing and the right thing is the route to change. Jesus can work a miracle in anyone’s life.
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