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Podcast Episode 13: Is God Too Busy for You? (Mark 5:21-43)
Welcome to Another Episode!
Welcome back to our podcast series on the Gospel of Mark. We're glad you could join us once again. In today's episode, we'll explore an intriguing section of the Gospel that speaks to the question many of us may have pondered: Is God too busy for us?
On more than one occasion I have heard people say, “There is no need to pray for me, you don’t need to trouble God with my insignificant problems; he has better things to do. He has a whole world to look after." I have had that said on more than one occasion in my life.
Have you ever felt that way, even though you haven’t said it? That God is great, but you don’t want to bother Him because you or your problems are basically insignificant? I would like to speak into that perspective today, because there is something that happened when Christ walked on this earth that vividly illustrates a response to that way of thinking. This is an interesting section of scripture, not least because it starts by telling us a story about the ruler of the local synagogue and his sick daughter.
Then in the midst of that story, the narrative is suddenly interrupted by the literal intrusion of an old woman into the proceedings. An elderly woman pushes her way into the middle of the story, an old woman suffering from uncontrollable bleeding. Then the text goes back and finishes the story about the dying daughter of the ruler of the synagogue. So, it neatly folds itself into three parts today.
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