I was looking through some old stuff. I kept in a few boxes all my books and homework and papers I wrote during my year at Parole de Vie Béthel (bible school) in 2001-2002. It’s always fun to look at my stuff and remember my time there. Well, I didn’t only find stuff from that year, but a little later, I don’t know why but in 2003 I wrote stuff for… no, not a class or a homework, I wrote about things I was noticing in the Word of God. I guess, I was writing a blog to nobody, on pieces of paper… Anyways I am amazed at some things I thought and wrote about in those years, it seems so… neat. So here’s some of thoughts I had on June 16, 2003, it is entitled, “The Sick Woman” (and it’s even written in English!). Matthew 9:21-22“She said to herself, ‘If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.’ Jesus turned and saw her. ‘Take heart daughter’, he said, ‘your faith has healed you’.” 

This sick woman was a maybe shy person. When we read the gospels we see a lot of people coming to Jesus crying out loud, shouting, begging in front of crowds and the like, in order to be heard of Jesus and be healed or have a friend healed. People sometime did extravagant things to be noticed by Jesus. Instead of asking Jesus to heal her, she only touches His cloak. She is looking for healing only. She took the easy way of doing things. Instead of calling out to Jesus as He is walking to this man’s house among a big crowd, she simply touches His cloak, not wanting to disturb anybody, be healed in a quiet way.  But when we think about it, Jesus wanted more than free-healing for everybody. He didn’t want to heal only for the sake of it. He wanted more than that. He stopped. He turned around to talk to her. She can’t go unnoticed. Jesus wanted to give the woman more than quick physical healing.   

What I see in this little story is that God wants to fill my life with more than the simple knowledge of being saved from hell. He wants a relationship with me. Even though there are a lot of people rushing around, He wants to talk to me, telling me He is here and He knows me.   The End. Well, I sort of added some things and omitted others… because I’m not sure if I still think that way. But anyways. I love to be reminded that Jesus wants me to know that I am important to Him and He wants to be with me, He doesn’t leave me to be a nobody, He loves me and wants to talk to me. It reminds me as well that if all I can “claim” from Jesus’ sacrifice is a ticket to heaven, well that’s mediocre. Jesus intends much more than a simple ticket to heaven, He gives more than that and I should be looking for more of Him and dig and dig in all His promises and who He is.