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MONDAY MARCH 14


MY PERSONAL SPACE

READ:
HEBREWS 4:15
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We do not have
a high priest
who is unable to
empathize with
our weaknesses.
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An industrial design graduate from a Singapore university was challenged in a workshop to come up with a novel solution to a common problem using only ordinary objects. She created a vest to protect one’s personal space from being invaded while traveling in the crush of crowded public trains and buses. The vest was covered with long, flexible plastic spikes normally used to keep birds and cats away from plants.

Jesus knew what it was like to lose His personal space in the commotion of crowds desperate to see and touch Him. A woman who had suffered from constant bleeding for 12 years and could find no cure touched the fringe of His robe. Immediately, her bleeding stopped (LUKE 8:43-44).

Jesus’ question, “Who touched me?” (v.45) isn’t as strange as it sounds. He felt power come out of Him (v.46). That touch was different from those who merely happened to accidentally touch Him.

While we must admit that we do sometimes wish to keep our personal space and privacy, the only way we help a world of hurting people is to let them get close enough to be touched by the encouragment, comfort, and grace of Christ in us. C. P. IA

**Lord Jesus, I want to be near You and know You so that when I’m in
contact with others they can see You through me.
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A Christian’s life is the window through which others can see Jesus.

***************************Today’s Bible Reading __ Luke 8:40-48***************************
40 Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him,
for they were all expecting him 41 Then a man named’Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet,
pleading with him to come to his house 42 because his
only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed
him. 43 And a woman was there who had been subject to
bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44 She
came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and
immediately her bleeding stopped.

45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked.
When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are
crowding and pressing against you.”

46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched Me; I know that power
has gone out from me.”

47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed,
came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the
people, she told why she had touched Himnand how she had
been instantly healed. 48 Then He said to her, “Daughter, your
faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Luke recounts three miracles in quick
succession. First, Jesus calms a storm while out in a boat on the
sea (LUKE 8:22-25). Then when the boat reaches the other side
of the sea, Jesus heals a man possessed by demons (vv.26-39).
Finally, Luke records that while going to heal the daughter of
Jairus, a synagogue leader, Jesus heals a woman who had been
suffering from bleeding for years (vv. 40-48). In the end, Jesus
brings Jairus’s daughter back to life (vv.46-56). This series of
miracles shows that nothing__nature, spirits, health, even life
and death__is outside of Jesus’s power and authority. J.R. Hudberg