One KC, Part 4 – Mark 5:24-34
Jesus has chosen us to be His family! Jesus has called us more than merely His “followers” – He has called us “family.”
Mark 3:31-35, Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You.” But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother.”
As adopted members of God’s family, we are related by blood! We are adopted into God’s family through the shed blood of Christ. That was the price of our adoption!
Mark 5:24-34, So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him. Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.” Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?” But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’” And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
Like this woman with a “sickness” of blood, we are all born with a “sickness” of blood—our bodies are under the curse of sin. Before Adam sinned, his body and that of his posterity would have had no blood. Only mortal bodies have blood. One day our immortal bodies will have no blood. (See 1 Corinthians 15:50)
Jesus shed His blood to heal us and cleanse us from our “sickness” of blood! Ephesians 1:7, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
This is our chance to enter the story!
Jesus has chosen us to bear fruit eternally! John 15:16, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain…”
Like the woman healed from her “sickness” of blood, when you are looking for your “one,” your “one” will sometimes find you.