And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace." (Luke 8:48 NASB)
The phrase "has made you well" is a translation of the word sōzō. This is a lovely term that could also be translated as "made you whole" or "saved you". "Your faith has made you whole." Indeed, that is what faith should do, isn't it? It should bring us to the One who can fix every broken part, every part that is imperfect. It should keep us near to Him until all is restored, made new, made whole.
For the woman with the hemorrhage, "made whole" was more than a cessation of her hemorrhage. It included a healing of the isolation of twelve years spent as "unclean". All the years of loss, frustration, fear, and hurt had left a deep wound, but through her faith, they, too, were made whole.
Isn't that what God would like to do through our faith? Isn't that what He will do, if we allow it? Imagine your life "made whole". What a change He could make if we reached out to Him with faith as the woman did and allowed His power to flow through us! Nothing held back. Nothing off-limits.
Today, pray that we and our loved ones would stop holding back and give ourselves to the wholeness that only Christ can bring.
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Link to last night's post: http://leannahollis.blogspot.com/2014/09/lessons-from-battlefield-part-14-one.html
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