Daily Meditation - Monday 7July 2008 - THERE IS NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE TO GOD WITH TRUST IN HIM

[BarbaraTherese]

Australia

Optional Memorial
Peter To Rot - Martyr
Common of Martyrs

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Mass Readings & Meditation
Readings

Meditation

Matthew 9:18-26

"I’m sorry, but there’s nothing I can do for you."

• The woman with hemorrhages had been hearing these words for twelve years.
• She had become more and more hopeless as she visited doctor after doctor and heard the same prognosis (Luke 8:43).
• Yet when she saw Jesus, she knew he could heal her.
• She pushed her way toward him, ignoring the crowd and the negative voices echoing in her head
• . Somehow she was able to open herself up to God’s healing power.

When she touched Jesus,
her life
was changed forever!

What was so special about this woman?

• Many people had crowded around Jesus that day;
• many touched him.
• Yet she was the only one whose faith was able to make contact with his divine power.

The one thing we know about her may provide the answer:

• She had nowhere else to turn.
• Her doctors, as good as they were, didn’t have what she needed.
• So instead of putting her hope in them, she put it in God.
• When Jesus walked by, she had to follow him!

She literally had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

• Did you know that Jesus is inviting you to follow in this woman’s footsteps?
• Not in the sense of hopelessness but in true hope.
• As you give yourself to Jesus and put your trust in him,
• he will intervene in your life, too.

*** But be forewarned: It may mean changing your way of thinking.***

• If you’ve been used to looking horizontally
• —that is, with a view that’s limited to this world
• —you will need to learn how to look up as well.
• Look up to heaven, where the gates have been opened, and where a flood of grace is waiting to fill your heart!
  Is there a reason you are feeling hopeless right now?
• Reach out to Jesus.
• Believe in your heart that if you but reach out to touch him, he will set you free.
• You may not know exactly what healing you need,
• but he does.

All you need is faith; his power and grace can do the rest.
Fix your eyes on him,
and set aside any old ways of thinking that hold you back.
Jesus can do much more
than you can ask or imagine!

“Lord Jesus, I believe that you are my healer. I give you my fears and doubts, and in return I ask you for deeper faith. Open my eyes, Lord, to see your majesty.”