Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 8 verses 42 through 48:
As he went, the crowds pressed in on him. 43Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians,* no one could cure her. 44She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his clothes, and immediately her haemorrhage stopped. 45Then Jesus asked, ‘Who touched me?’ When all denied it, Peter* said, ‘Master, the crowds surround you and press in on you.’ 46But Jesus said, ‘Someone touched me; for I noticed that power had gone out from me.’ 47When the woman saw that she could not remain hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before him, she declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. 48He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.’
No one should be bankrupted because of health problems. That should be true both for the insured and also the uninsured. In fact, free, quality, health care should be available to everyone as a basic human right. And the fact that so much of our health insurance program in America is still wrapped up with our places of employment is a travesty. Try holding a job when you're bleeding all the time like this woman!
Jesus healed her of her hemorrhaging. Her faith in his compassionate care healed her.
We could be healed too if there were a will, and if we really paused to consider how Jesus called this poor and nameless woman his "daughter".
How would we want the daughter of Jesus to be treated?
Think about it.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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