Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Daughter, your faith has healed you

Luke 8:22-56

So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”  He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.

And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss. A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission. When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left. 

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.

Then he said to her, Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But he took her by the hand and said, “My child, get up!” Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat. 

Why?

Where is your faith? The faith in Jesus.  When Jesus is with us, in the same boat what do we fear?

After this squall wind, the disciples wonder 'Who is he?' Jesus has power over nature. Do we really understand who Jesus is?

Jesus listened to the request of the Demons. Don't let them go into the Abyss. There is endless pain and a dark place. 

People of the village cared for their pigs but didn't like Jesus with them. Most people care about their own property but careless their eternal life. They care what they can see, but escape what they can not see.

Jesus can let the spirit of a dead girl return to her.  Jesus is the Lord of our life if Jesus delights nothing impossible

Jesus overcame the daemons, and Jesus healed a bleeding woman for her faith. Jesus is the Lord.

To the man from whom the demons: tell how much God has done for you. but to the girl her Spirit returned, Jesus asked her parent not to tell anyone what had happened. For the time of the Lord has not come. Jesus can get rid of the demons, and Jesus can return the Spirit.

How?

Why Jesus said to two people with a different way to mention His miracles. Get rid of demons others may make it, but return the Spirit of human is never happen. So Jesus is the Lord.





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