The Bleeding Woman
I wrote this after reading through Mark 5:25-34, the story of the bleeding woman. This is one of my most favorite stories in the Bible. One of the reasons why is because when reading it, I can feel this woman’s desperation to be healed, desperation to be better. And haven’t we all been there? Desperate to be better from whatever vices of this world weigh on us? Whatever temptations haunt us so heavily?I know I have. And like this woman, I know, the healing starts with Jesus.
Unclean…
12 years you've been in pain
Indescribable at best
Forced in isolation
Never can you rest
…
You are just so tired
Sick of being ill
You’ve tried every doctor
Every cure and every pill
…
But you’re just getting worse
What else must you take?
Until you heard there’s someone
Who just might change your fate
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So you stand in a crowd
For the first time in years
People hardly notice
Because they know he is here
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A man you’ve never met
You’ve only heard the stories
Of the people he has healed
How miraculous and how holy
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You know he can help you
Deep down you believe
Just a touch of his clothes
And you’ll finally be made clean
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All your life you’ve longed
Just to get better
This is your chance
One shot, no pressure
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You reach your hand out
Barely grazing his clothes
Instantly you feel it
The power that flows
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But he feels it too
Calling out, “Who touched me?”
Shaken and afraid
You fall trembling at his feet
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You tell him everything
How you were once dead
He looked at you and smiled
This is what he said
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“My child do not be fearful
There is no need to be
Your great faith has healed you
Go in peace and be freed”
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In a blink of an eye it’s over
Like your sickness was just a dream
And you feel something new
Loved…saved…redeemed
~ w. a.
Mark 5:25-34 (NIV) 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
