PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Mark 5:35-43
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“Jesus told him, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe.’” (Mark 5:36)
I once spoke on trusting God through difficulty as a guest pastor.
A man, recently widowed, approached me with tears in his eyes.
‘Your words sounds so good, but it doesn’t work for me!’
His wife had died, and no amount of trust brought her back to life.
What is the good of trusting Jesus if it doesn’t work?
Agreed, if Jesus came to immediately heal and raise everyone, He failed.
If that is what we are believing in Jesus for, we will be disappointed.
But Jesus came to defeat the source of sin, death and hell (Hebrews 2:14-15).
Through this miracle – and the cross – Jesus shows us that He can defeat death.
Jesus defeats death, but it will not be destroyed until the end (1 Corinthians 15:26).
As Jesus followers, we hang on to Jesus until the last day when death is destroyed.
Faith in Jesus works, but it works itself out in time, and awaits His final return.
Sickness and death remain for the time being, but their days are numbered.
Through our tears, we refuse to give in to fear… and we choose to give in to faith!
PRAYER
Lord, the enemy wants me to fear, but You are urging me to faith. I choose faith in You. Thank You for showing us that NOTHING, not even death, can keep us from You.
When death is close for me I look forward to Jesus calling “My child, get up!” There was commotion before Jesus went in – can only imagine the commotion afterward! This event bears witness to Jesus’ power to overcome death – certain eternal death. Jesus is the victor – and that I may have eyes of faith to see it and to declare it so that others may ‘see’ too!
Lord you breathe life. Help me not decide that a relationship, organization, plan, or passion is dead because I don’t have the means to bring life to it – help us remember that you breath into us, and through us, into the world and all our efforts. Thank you for your Life.
This passage shows the love of God for His people. In their deepest need, He was there. The father asked in faith for his daughter. That was his drive. In his deepest crisis he went to his source of strength, his rock. And I must do the same. In times like these I know My Lord is in charge. Today, as in every day, I go forward in the power of His name serving Him.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.