"Take Heart, Daughter" - A Communion Meditation
A Communion Meditation Taken from Matthew 9.22 Early on in Matthew, the story is recounted where Jesus was walking through a crowd, and a woman who had some kind of hemorrhaging for 12 years – a woman who would have been considered and treated as impure and unfit to enter God’s worship, who would have been cut off from much of the fellowship and festal feasting of God’s people; a woman who would have felt like she dwelt “ in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63.1) – alone, cut off, kicked out. She saw Jesus and secretly came up behind Jesus thinking, “ If I only touch his garment, I will be made well ” (Matthew 9.21). She touched his robe in faith, and immediately “ Jesus turned, and seeing her he said," ...He didn't say, "get away from me until you're clean enough!" Nor did he say, "Don't touch me until you have made yourself pure enough!" Instead, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly...
