Title: True Encounter (Mark 05:29)
Content Human discipline, moral life, or religion cannot change our lives, environment, and spirit. Only Jesus Christ can transform us completely and make us children of God. Therefore, we need to meet Jesus Christ in our lives. A true Christian is a person who has completely personally met Jesus and has a changed religious experience. Then how can we meet Jesus?
Above all else, like the woman who suffered from bleeding in the text, you must have a longing to meet Jesus in your heart. It is recorded that this woman suffered from a blood clot for twelve years. Let's think about it. If he had been bleeding for 12 years, his face would have been as pale as ever. Also, in the Jewish country, a woman suffering from blood clots was branded as an unclean woman, so she had to live apart from her neighbors and family.
Also, this woman must have visited all the doctors to cure her disease. He squandered all his possessions while looking for lawmakers, and in the end, it seems that his illness only got worse. However, this woman was not discouraged or desperate, but had a strong will for life. When the woman heard the news of Jesus, she mixed with the crowd, came back and touched Jesus' cloak.
It was at this moment that a miracle occurred. The source of his blood stopped flowing, and the disease left his body. His longing to be healed, his longing to gain a new life, this longing was the reason he met Jesus, and that meeting with Jesus brought about a miracle.
Today, like this woman, we must come before the Lord with the desire to meet Jesus Christ. In this way, when we meet Jesus, our lives and circumstances change and we can live for others. An encounter with Jesus changes the essential source of life. Those who have met Jesus can live a meaningful and beautiful life, a blessed life, free from the meaningless and ugly life and the cursed life. We must have a real encounter with Jesus. Otherwise, you will have no choice but to live a meaningless life like the flowers of the field and the morning mist. Everyone who had a true encounter with Jesus in the Bible lived a changed life. Our family must also meet the Lord and be healed in soul, body and life, and live a new life every day.
Prayer: Thank God Almighty. Please keep us so that we can truly meet Jesus Christ and live a new life. We are weak, so give us strength, so that we can live our lives with strength. depend on the Lord. Help us. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Congregational Prayer: The Lord's Prayer for the sick