HE IS A STUBBORN GOD

This woman was it! She only needed to touch his clothes, and she knew she would be well again. And this is where we see the inclination of God.

She was in need and he turned towards her. God absolutely loves us and actively pursues us. And the more we understand how much God is pursuing us, the more we will pursue him. He inclines toward us, he turns to you! She was used to being unseen. I mean, twelve years is a long time.

But Christ saw her. Through the crowd, he searched for her. Not only does he incline to us and see us, but look at this dialogue Christ has with her. Your faith has made you well! Then, He identifies her. He calls her daughter. I see you and you are mine. Before Christ, she was just a woman with an issue, but after Christ, she has a name: And lastly, he reminds her…your faith has made you well.

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Keep in mind, it had been about minutes between the time she had touched him and was healed and Christ telling her to be brave. I love this paradox of a call to be courageous and a commendation of faith in the same breath of God. This story inspires me on days when my stubbornness wanes and I feel alone as ever, ready to throw in the towel.

It serves as reminder that God inclines to us, he sees us, he instructs us, identifies us and reminds us that He absolutely loves us. I came across this article when I was trying to study out stubborn people in the bible, and this was exactly what I needed! This article was so well written, and really helped me to dig deeper into the scripture, to see what was and was not said. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

I have always loved this story. Maybe your commentary of the 3 counts of her following and interacting with Jesus was just beautiful. Somehow, one chose us. We began to look at what other Scriptures said about Sodom. Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. We sat in awe of this passage. Sodom is synonymous with sexual sin.

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Every message, illustration, or reference I heard while growing up made it clear that the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of sodomy. More than one spiritual leader had used the Genesis account as a hallmark against sexual sin.

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The passage uncovered something deeper for me and my husband that Sunday morning — the sexual acts were merely outward behaviors of inward attitudes. The heart issues ran deeper: Before this morning of midrash, I could have read Genesis 19 as a distant story in a faraway land. Now I was confronted with myself in the story. I am no different than anyone found in the twin sin cities. As a contributing member of an arrogant culture, whose pride reaches international proportions, I make my donations in small ways every day — through self-righteous and better-than-you attitudes, insensitive self-serving opinions, and nationalistic tendencies and beliefs.

My pride puts itself on display in the ways I shop, dress, eat, and talk, and is only compounded by the fact that I live in an overfed, prosperous society. Such bounty reveals that real poverty comes from both lack of access as well as abundance of excess. The result is an unconcerned, apathetic response to those in need which almost reads like an equation: I quietly asked the Organic God to do something and anything in me at the same time.

The desire became a two-word prayer: Leif eventually closed out our time of midrash study and we went to church. They did not help the poor and needy.

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I thought about going to the grocery store and buying items for a local food bank, but the afternoon filled up with activities and I never got around to going shopping. The next morning I went to buy a parking pass at the airport for an upcoming trip.

On a whim, the woman gave me the pass for free. It was the equivalent of handing me more than fifty dollars in cash.

We are disciples of Christ, making disciples for Him in every nation (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV)

I smiled, thanked the gracious woman, and left feeling grateful and humble. All I could think was, How many gifts can I possibly contain before I begin to give back? That was my tipping point — the moment when I knew something had to give and that something was me. I drove straight to the grocery store, and with a mad dash that resembled Supermarket Sweep, began filling up the cart with products for the local food bank.

I piled the cart with dozens of items and entered the checkout lane with a full basket and more importantly an overflowing heart.