Impromptu Grace
Devotional
People come to conviction on spiritual things when they face the evils of the world. Is there any escape for the evil we experience? In this sermon, we see that only God and Jesus can remove the traumas caused by sin. Jesus shows us four characteristics you wouldn't expect from a person who has the power to confront sin and evil at its source.
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” 24 So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
MARK 5:21-34
Questions:
- What do you learn about Jairus and the woman in their interaction with Jesus?
- What time in your life have you felt the most desperate for Jesus’ help? Please explain.
- How have you fashioned your life to make yourself accessible and available to Jesus?
- Jesus was accessible, available, interruptible and personal to the people in his life. How are you with the people in your life?
- What stops you from imitating Jesus as detailed above?
Practice The Way of Jesus:
There is a direct link between how you live now and who you become in the future. We don’t become like Jesus by accident. So how do we change? This week, consider what it will look like for you to imitate how Jesus was with people. Seek to be more intentional and present to the people God has placed around you.