I haven't written a post in awhile and I wasn't really sure what to write about recently. I've been reading through the book of Mark and the other day, I read Mark 5. In that chapter, there is a passage about Jesus healing a sick woman who had been suffering with bleeding for twelve years. I read these particular couple of verses and they struck me. "When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, 'If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.' Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering." I couldn't get this sentence out of my head once I read it. It just blew me away!
As someone who has suffered from physical illness off and on, and with mental illness for many years, I wondered what that would feel like to feel in my body that I was freed from my suffering! It seems unbelievable to me, but I can only imagine what an incredible feeling it would be.
I know I am healed now from sin and that ultimately death has no victory over me, but I wonder what it would feel like on this earth to know that I was freed from my physical and mental suffering. Some people experience this here and now and I am so thankful for that. So far I have not, but that doesn't mean I can't keep praying for healing.
I just wanted to share this passage and my thoughts on it, because that line just wouldn't leave me and it encourages me greatly. To know that I have experienced ultimate healing from sin and death is something I am so grateful for. To know that others do experience healing here on earth from their physical and mental illnesses is also something to be hopeful for. But ultimately knowing that someday when I am in Heaven, I will definitely know what it is like to feel in my body that I am free from suffering. That is something to look forward to and to give me joy and hope here and now. And I hope it does for you too!
