Desperately Seeking Jesus: Reaching out to Him

How great is your need for Jesus?  When was the last time you reached out to Him with faith?  We say we believe, but do we really?  Some of us have been misled and swayed to other things such as drugs, alcohol, sexual affairs and other harmful addictions.  However, this is not so to those whose heart truly belong to God.  Unfortunately for the most of us, it is only when we have reached rock bottom we truly seek Him and reach out to Him.  Let's read about a woman who desperately reached out to Jesus.  Mark 5:25-34 reads; A large crowd followed and pressed around him.  And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.  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.  When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."  Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.  At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him.  He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"  "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered,  "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?"  But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.  Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.  He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you.  Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."  How beautiful!  How even more beautiful to the one who reached out desperately in need of Him with faith.  If only we reached out and believed!  If only we prayed and believed!  If only we followed Him and believed!  If only we surrendered and believed!  What miracles would the Lord do through us!  What testimonies would we have to give!  What power and good works would He do through us!  Oh, if only we reached out with such faith, we would undoubtedly live a victorious Christian life.  May we all reach out to Him with great faith, desperately seeking Jesus.  God bless you all.