Feeding On Spiritual Chunks

Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.

The second broken piece

We now feed upon this chunk or broken piece – Put your hands on her.

O how this second piece keeps us even further humbled and free of all self-will. This is what I mean. We have been made humbled, however it has been done and we thank God for His grace and mercy, for the evil one has not simply vanished off the face of the earth, neither has he seen our sincerity and decided to leave us. No! He is waiting in the shadows to find the slightest space to enter and turn us back. But the Lord knows His enemy – the deceiver - only too well, so He keeps us fixed in Him, as we feed on His Word and are kept safe and delivered from the evil one.

It is in this wisdom, this renewed mind that we receive this asking of the synagogue ruler. He so trusts the Rabbi, that he is asking Him to put His Hands on his daughter. We need to stop here and acknowledge, honour and magnify the miracle-changing works of God’s unfathomable grace. If this is not Holy Spirit works, then what is? At one time, not many synagogue rulers, if any, would want Jesus touching them, much more touching their precious little children. At one time, because of how Jesus touched all kinds of people, even those who were considered unclean, such as sinners and publicans, without ceremonially washing Himself, He too would be considered unclean in the eyes of religious, law-abiding Jews. Now here it is that Jairus is asking this ceremonially unclean Rabbi, to touch his dying daughter.

Put your hands on her. I’m sure you’ll acknowledge that these are not just admirable words that we are hearing, but they are powerful words which cut into our very being. If by faith, we are ingesting it all, then we too will find ourselves making bold requests like Jairus, asking for what we would never have dreamt of asking, had not a desperate life and death need taken strong hold of us. The touch of Rabbi Jesus is what we seek.

Please put Your hands on her, Jesus; touch my child. Amen!

The third broken piece

We now feed upon this chunk or broken piece – so that she will be healed and live.

If the second piece kept us even further humbled and free of all self-will, then this third piece seals it in us. For me, this is my uprooting and undoing. In what way or ways is this so? With totally given over hearts and minds, we cannot but admit these facts. Jairus is not a disciple of Jesus, not even a friend of His, yet I am totally cancelled out when I listen to Jairus. Listen:-

He makes a public declaration about the Authority and Work of Jesus. So that she will be healed. My dying daughter will be healed by You. There is not even the slightest, passing semblance of doubt or wavering in Jairus’ mind. I’m asking You to touch her, Jesus, so that she will be healed.

Now this is for you and for me, as a friend and follower of Jesus. Will I stand in public, before Jesus, with my urgent prayer request, knowing that what I have asked for will be granted? Or do I ask with uncertainty, doubts and a spirit of timidity? If a non-follower of our Lord and Master can speak with such surety about Him, where are you? Where am I? Are we truly praying answered prayer? This non-disciple lifts Authority, high.

He boldly articulates the Divinity of Jesus. She will live. Who gives life but Jesus? Has Jesus not declared on other occasions that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life? Doesn’t faith allow you to interpret the word, live, as much more than just the opposite of die? It is this surrendered heart, the newly living heart that desires his child to live – to know Jesus Christ.

This is for you and me. As a professed lover of Jesus and a disciple, as a friend and follower of Jesus, will I stand in a large peering crowd and claim the Divinity of Jesus? He must be of God, if He is able to give life to others. Just in this, can’t you hear and see Jairus confessing that Jesus is truly the Son of God?

Jesus will hear your words and be most pleased with your faith and trust in Him. He will interpret your words for you, lifting high your self-removing profession of Him.

The Lord still honours self-removing.

May the Holy Spirit have mercy upon us all. Amen!