Walk the extra mile

Many times the life of faith depends on an attitude of fierce effort, of militant effort, of daring to do things that are out of the ordinary, out of the ordinary. There are times when we have to do unconventional things and we have to dare in the name of the Lord believing that if we launch ourselves in the name of the Lord He will be powerful to not allow us to be ashamed.

And Scripture is full of these individuals who kind of persist, are endowed with a desperate energy that makes them go beyond the conventional, and that measure of effort is what takes them out of the ordinary and makes God take notice. from them. Notice that this woman is surrounded by people who are pressing on the Lord and putting pressure on the person of Jesus. And yet it says that when this woman touched the mantle of Jesus, power immediately came out of the Lord, and the Lord asked who touched me?

And the disciples are surprised by the question because they say: Lord, but if the whole world is touching you, this crowd is pouncing on you and pressing you everywhere, how do you say who has touched you? The whole world has touched you . The touch that had reached him was a distinctive touch, it was something out of the ordinary. And it is that touch precisely what we have to ask the Lord to help us find in our lives. That energy that comes from the very bowels of our being that leads us to the very Presence of the Lord.

It's kind of like a spiritual warfare almost. It is a wonderful thing that honors God and honors us as well. The Lord is pleased and it is something weird to explain, but like a father his son does something weird unconventional that shows something of the son's character or the love he has for the father, or the trust he has for the father, and this evokes the father's pleasure, likewise God reacts like a father when his children do strange or unconventional things that show that we believe him, that we love him, that we know that he is real, that he has feelings with which we we can identify ourselves.

And then that's what he says to the Father: this person takes you seriously, and that flatters him, motivates him. Those are the rules of faith and that's what this woman does. She has that distinctive touch and that effort, that fierce attitude that we see for example in the Cyrus-Phoenician woman, who approaches the Lord Jesus Christ and asks him to intervene on behalf of her daughter who is demonized. And the Lord at first rejects her and says: no, I cannot attend you because you come from another nation and I have been called to tend the sheep of Israel.

And this woman persists and the Lord answers her almost with an insult, he says: you know, it is not good to give the children's food to the dogs. You are saying that this non-Jewish woman belongs to an unclean race. But this woman does not allow herself to be discouraged or offended by the apparent insulting refusal of Jesus and she answers him with a response that, as it binds the Lord, says: Yes Lord, you say that it is not good to give the children's food to the dogs. , but still the dogs have the right to eat the crumbs that fall from the table.

Interestingly, this woman takes the image that Jesus uses and makes it a kind of spiritual judo and pineapple to the Lord against the wall, she says yes, but what about this interpretation of what you are saying? The Word says that the Lord marveled at her faith, I imagine that he smiled and perhaps even laughed at that moment at the occurrence of this woman and says: Do you know what woman? Great is your faith, because of that word. your daughter is freed from her affliction. The Bible says that at that very moment her daughter was freed from that demon that afflicted her.

How wonderful that this woman persists, struggles, her despair gives her an overdeveloped wit and finds the precise word that unleashes the merciful move of Jesus Christ. Think of Saqueo who climbs a tree because he wants to look at Jesus and does something extraordinary, out of the ordinary, this man who was an officer feared by the people, a lonely man, powerful, perhaps oppressive, abusive, had power on his part of the Roman government. But not thinking of his own public dignity, he climbs that tree to be comfortable because he was a short man, and it provokes the interest of Jesus when he sees him up there on that tree.

He says to him: Saqueo, get down from that tree, it is important that today you and I have dinner together, because the Lord sees Saqueo's appetite and his effort to talk to Him.

So time and time again we could be here for a long time exploring different characters that stand out for that quality of effort, of going beyond the fundamental effort and putting themselves at risk, making a fool of themselves, drawing opposition and insults from the crowd because they want to. see the Lord and touch Him, and receive from Him that much needed answer.

May the Lord bring us to that level of life. That is what we ask of God every day: Lord make us intense believers, make us militant, brave, daring believers that we always live the Christian life at that level of intensity. And this woman with the issue of blood is a wonderful, memorable character who invites us into that kind of intense life that believes in the Lord and dares to go beyond the ordinary.

I hope this is a blessing for you and we continue our reflections on the woman with the issue of blood. God bless you, Roberto Miranda says goodbye to you and until next time

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