Awestruck: 30 Days of Wonder in the BibleSample

This woman suffered for twelve years.

Doctors couldn't help. Society kept her at a distance. Hope was slipping away. Yet with one desperate touch of Jesus' robe, everything changed.

Can you imagine what those twelve years felt like? Isolation. Whispered conversations that stopped when she walked by. Countless nights wondering if anyone saw her pain or cared that she was disappearing a little more each day.

By law, her touch should have made Jesus unclean.

Instead, His holiness made her clean.

That's the power of God’s grace: what should have disqualified her became the very moment of her restoration.

But here's what gets me every time I read this story: Jesus felt her touch in a crowd of people pressing against Him. He could have kept walking. Important people were waiting. Miracles hung in the balance. But He stopped for one woman who thought she could sneak a healing and slip away unnoticed.

He called her "daughter," restoring not only her body but speaking to her identity.

Healing was more than power flowing out. It was love reaching in.

And it still is.

Every moment, you can reach for this same Jesus. The One whose compassion notices the individual in the crowd and calls them His own. He sees you right where you are today—not as someone lost in the masses, but as His beloved child. What do you ask of Him? Reach out!

Reflect:

How does this woman's desperate faith encourage you in your own relationship with God?

Tomorrow we'll witness Jesus do the impossible—and discover what it means for every hopeless situation.