Virtue Flows From Him

June 29

Sometimes we are pushed to acts of desperation. In our extremity, the adrenalin kicks in and we act in extraordinary ways. A story is told of a young man who was pinned under his car when the tire jack slipped while he was changing a tire. His mother lifted the car for him to slide from under it!

Feats of heroism are often attributable to an innate reaction to the desperation of the moment. A story is told in scripture of a woman whose lingering, debilitating sickness had caused her much suffering through over a decade. We are told that an issue of blood had weakened her for twelve long years.

When Jesus came to her town, He was thronged by the masses that followed Him, but she knew she must somehow press through the crowd to reach Him, for He held the solution to her problem. Matthew 9:21 tells us that, “She said to herself, ‘If I can but touch the hem of His garment, I’ll be made whole.’”

When she touched the hem of His robe, He perceived that virtue had gone forth from Him. He recognized the need in her touch although everyone around Him was touching, pushing, reaching to Him. When we approach Him with our needs today, virtue will flow from Him and we will, like the woman, be delivered.