The Bleeding Woman

11/27/23

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”

…

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.”