Come My Way

Nathan Stam
Children/Communications Pastor

What would it take for You to walk towards me?

I remember a few years back there was this Skillet song that I always was moved by. It was called "Come My Way" and was about the woman who was healed by touching Jesus in Mark 5.

Here are some of the lyrics:

Hundreds come from everywhere
Just to see your face and touch the healer's hand
Desperate, I push through the crowd
If I could touch your clothes
I could feel your power

Here's the passage in full if you'd like to read it, but I love what Jesus tells this woman: "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be free..."

Go in peace and be free. Can you put yourself in this woman's story for a moment this Friday afternoon? She had suffered bleeding for 12 years. No one could help her, not even doctors. She had spent everything trying to find healing, but in vain. There was nothing any man could do. Not only could no one help her, but the bleeding was getting worse. Desperation. But she hears about this man, this Rabbi. He is known for teaching with authority and for his miracles and she has heard about him in her story and so she joins the crowd by the sea.

And there he is. Her eyes see him and she can tell something is different. What would it take for You to walk towards me? She hasn't known peace and freedom in her story for many long years. She's been unclean for over a decade. She makes her way behind Jesus and dares, she dares to touch the Rabbi's robe. Out of faith. From a heart of desperation.

Instantly, her flow of blood ceases and she senses in her body that she has been made whole. Her story has changed. From just one touch. Go in peace and be free, Jesus says. And she does.

How about your story? How is your faith? Are you desperate for God? Do you know peace and are you free? Or are you waste deep in the trappings of comfort and ease, unable to escape? Bogged down in a swamp of worry and responsibility? Could you follow Jesus if He asked you to go to the hard places? To love the hard-to-love people? To do the hard things?

Go in peace and be free.