The Fringe of Faith

Faith, we all have some degree of faith in certain areas.  For instance, we have blind faith.  We have faith that the person driving on the other side of the road is going to stay there.  Right?  Sometimes we have faith and trust that is earned and learned over time, perhaps with a good friend or someone we are close to.  They just have shown us that we can trust them. 

What kind of faith do we have in God, in Jesus? Do we have any REAL faith?  You see faith is easy when all is going well.  When life is good, so is God.  That should be some of our (I include me in this) mottos.  What about when things aren’t so cut and dried, how does our faith hold up then?  Do we doubt God or look to other things?  Maybe we say; “Ok God I gave You Your chance, now let me show You how it should be done?” Do we have real faith when it’s tested?

God has a lot to say about faith in His word.  When I looked it up, faith was mentioned a lot!  Let’s just look at one example for today. 

Mark tells us this story in Mark 5 beginning in verse 21.  This is the story about a woman who had been sick for 12 years and had spent all she had on different doctors, but none could help her.  Mark actually tells us she had gotten worse.  She had heard of Jesus and listen to her thought process as she neared Him in order to touch the fringe of his robe among the crowd of people. “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.”  She had faith.  And she was right.  She was healed immediately.  Many were touching Jesus that day, but one had the faith to be healed, made whole.  Jesus notices this faith too, “Who touched my robe?”  When she told him it was her as she fell at the feet of Jesus, listen to His words in verse 34, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”  Did you notice the two things?  One is faith in just the fringe of Jesus’ robe, the other is the suffering is over.  How many of us need to just get close enough to touch Jesus’ robe today to receive the end to suffering or maybe doubt?  All it takes is to be the one in the crowd of people to realize that Jesus is still the answer no matter what the problem.  “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

God Bless!