Woman with Hemorrhage & Jairus Dauther

There is a group of 7 of us that have begun a journey together to examine the healing miracles of Jesus that appear in scripture.  This class has a significant writing component, in that each of us will have a blog where we answer the questions "What lesson(s) have you learned about healing from this account? 

Here I examine Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:24b-34 and Luke 8:42-48, the account of the woman with hemorrhage

Last week in class we talked about the difference between healing and cure, how they were not the same, though in our society the two are used interchangeably. 

Being healed - is a process leading toward wholeness

Being cured – is the elimination of all evidence of disease or injury to the body.  

One can be cured without being healed, just as one can be healed without being cured. I suspect that much of the medical profession’s focus these days is on cure, but a cure without addressing the underlying spiritual unrest (or dis-ease) is just a band-aid . 

Maybe that is what was going on with the woman in this story, that she had “suffered under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.”  The doctors were attempting a physical cure when what was needed was a spiritual healing. 

“If I just touch his cloths, I will be healed” the story goes, she did and she was, and Jesus felt that the “power had gone out from him”.  This story is a reminder that we can be agents of God’s healing without even being aware that we are playing a small part in the great thing that God is doing.  This story is also a reminder to be aware of our own spiritual tank, and when we feel the power leave us to step away, and not be tempted to rely on our own power. 

For this woman being healed lead toward also being cured; and she was made whole.