Jesus loves you. Jesus cares. Jesus has compassion for you.

Outcast? Hurting? Spent all trying to get well or survive with little to show for your efforts? Jesus sees, knows, and cares.

Our account of Jesus’ love today shows how much He cares for people. It shows how much He loves us despite our issues.

Mark 5:25-34

^“25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

²⁶ And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

²⁷ When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

²⁸ For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

²⁹ And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

³⁰ And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

³¹ And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

³² And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

³³ But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

³⁴ And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”

Things to think about:

• How long had the woman had the issue?
• Besides being a woman in that culture, what would that particular issue have made her?
• What had she tried?
• What was her faith like?
• What happened when she reached out to Jesus?
• What was Jesus’ response?
• How did this woman show her courage, in addition to her faith?
• Look at this… what was Jesus’ response? What did He call her?

Oh, how Jesus loves us. How He cares for us!