She was just another wandering soul that never dared to dream her silent prayers made it beyond the ceiling of taunting, blue sky. She was just one in the sea of faces that ebbed and flowed around Him day after day. But she caught hold of His dusty hem. It wasn't but a moment, but it was enough. She was suddenly whole. And being nothing more than one among thousands, it would have been easy for her to disappear into the barren wasteland...
It would have been easy for them to go their sepearte ways - the encounter accomplishing next to nothing.
But He stopped and called for her. She hid and he pursued her. She responded and she was known.
Suddenly she was the one among thousands. The one who stopped for the experience. The one who encountered Jesus and walked away changed for His glory.
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It is easy to sneak up behind Him, snatch at a piece of His hem and steal away, thinking I am nothing more than one of thousands. It is easy to believe that I blend into the chorus of voices pleading for their piece of an answered prayer. It is easy to believe He will never notice and continue on His way.
To the contrary, He pursues me and invites me to stop for the experience.
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"Had she stolen away in the crowd, she would not have met Jesus personally or heard His words of assurance and comfort." - Warren Wiersbe (The Wiersbe Bible Commentary: New Testament, page 164)
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It is impossible to encounter Jesus and remain the same.


