Our faith changes the Lord's agenda

We continue with the study of Jairus and the woman who touched the cloak of Jesus. The Lord goes to the house of Jairus and is persecuted by a large crowd that seeks the power that is in the life and in the Ministry of Jesus.

"But," he says, "a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for 12 years came up to him from behind and touched the edge of his cloak." That but that is there in verse 43 is very important because it indicates that, when this woman approaches the Lord, she approaches more like a "footnote" we can say, it is like an asterisk, something that was not expected, something that indicates an exceptionality. The Lord is actually going to Jairo's house to attend to the request of this important man.

This woman with the issue of blood does not figure at that moment in the plans of Jesus Christ but rather she is injected into the trajectory, in the agenda of Jesus Christ and almost as if it is imposed in the plans of the Lord we could say.

Until this moment when this woman appears, things are actually working as one would expect them to work in this ordinary world where people of power, well-connected men are going to receive the help and provision they need to solve their problems. crisis, but for the moment what we see here is that this impotent, alienated, insignificant person, denigrated as a woman with an issue of blood is imposed and manifests herself in the Lord's agenda and adds to it as a different direction, a different content to the narrative we are examining.

At the moment the attention is directed not to the powerful person but to the weak person, the person who does not have any rights, we could say, the person who is not on the agenda and who should not be on the agenda because he does not qualify, and this is very important because we know very well that the Kingdom of God is for the worn out, it is for the unacceptable, it is for those who need the Grace and mercy of God. It is not for the righteous necessarily or those who believe themselves righteous but for those who are simple of heart, humble who do not deserve to come before the Lord.

It makes me think of that passage in the Epistle to the Romans that says: "Because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" in other words, no human being deserves to come before the Presence of the Lord because we have all sinned, we have all sinned. disqualified, we have all shown that we are unworthy of divine consideration or divine favor.

And this woman kind of represents that humanity that has no right, that humanity that shouldn't be in the movie so to speak but enters the movie because of her faith, so that but is like a recognition of the exceptional character of that woman.

The other thing that I see here is that this woman is very similar to other characters that we see in the Ministry of Jesus who approach the Lord because of a desperate condition, they have a sense of urgency, of need, of desperation almost that impels them, prompts them to seek God's mercy and that leads them many times to do things that are impolite and that are imposed or that almost deserve condemnation or annoyance from God but that the opposite happens, that the Lord Jesus in Instead of getting upset with these desperate and aggressive people, he feels flattered, feels shocked and reacts positively to those expressions of faith that they give.

We see, for example, with the friends of the paralyzed man that when they go to look for Jesus, again, the house is full, the crowd hugs Jesus, the space where the Lord is is impenetrable and they want to resolve their situation, they go up on the roof. they break and lower their friend on his gurney from the roof.

It always makes me laugh imagining that, that the Lord is speaking and suddenly bits of straw or dust begin to fall from the roof and everyone is watching as a hole begins to open and then the hole gets bigger and bigger. , and finally perhaps the voices of the men above are heard saying: hey put it down, take care! and finally this character appears on a stretcher lowered by ropes or something like that, right? I imagine that the Lord would have laughed a lot, although the owner of the house must have been quite upset. But the Lord seeing these men full of faith, their faith makes him marvel and the Lord says: Wow, what a great faith, and he listens to their requests.

And so this woman, by having so much faith that Christ can save her, she gets into the Lord's agenda and for the moment leaves her life anonymous and impotent, and becomes an agent of power and decision that the Lord makes me attend to his condition. So we see that this woman appears for the moment.

This is so important isn't it? that our faith moves mountains, our faith lifts us out of the troubles and quagmires in which we find ourselves, our faith makes God pay attention. As that hymn says: "Your faith moves the hand of God." Also this other chorus that says: "A look of faith is what can save the sinner." That is to say, they are those internal movements of the heart, those passionate movements, those movements of great despair in which we have no other recourse than to go before the Lord and ask for His mercy, and that we are willing to do whatever it is, as Esther said when she was going to intervening in the king's court, he said: "If I perish, let him perish" because his situation was so desperate that he could not afford to be courteous or even abide by the minutiae of the law.

This situation demanded an energetic and urgent situation and it was, and the Lord obeys that. When we are in need and in situations of great pressure and great urgency, God is willing to listen to our request. We are never, in a sense, off God's agenda. What makes us accept and access the Lord is our availability and our faith to believe in a merciful and compassionate God. God bless you, until our next meditation.