Mark 5:25-29
Touched by a Garment
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.
Acts 17:24-31
God is Not Far from Any of Us
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Imagine being ill for twelve years and then by just touching the cloak of a Man, you feel better, and you immediately get well, after all those years...It happened to a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years and had suffered a great deal, yet instead of getting better, her health worsened over the twelve years...Yet, she knew she would get better by touching a Healer's clothes...Touching and then being healed, by this touching of a Man's garment, is a great mystery...And then again, He is a great mystery...To find this healing process and a Great Holiness in the touching of a cloak, shows us this mystery...And God puts us in our lives in sometimes the oddest places and situations to find Him and places where we see His sacredness and His holiness...This sick woman may have had her most sacred moment in her life, in the touching of the bottom of His cloak...She was able to feel this Sacred Mystery in a most remarkable way...A most unusual place, yet God is near us...He is not far from any of us...