Freedom from Suffering

UV 685/10,000 Freedom from Suffering He said to her, “ Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” Mark 5 v 34 A woman who had heard about Jesus pressed forward in the crowd around Him to touch His clothes. Jesus could feel the anointing power leaving His body as the woman was healed in that instant. This was the only recorded instance in the Bible of a miracle being triggered without the express will and knowledge of Jesus. He turned round to look for who had touched Him. The woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve long years with fear and trembling told Him the whole truth. Jesus then confirmed the miraculous healing that He Himself had not ordained and said, “ Your faith has healed you.” Two elements are needed to birth a miracle: the power of Jesus and the faith of the person with a need for that miracle. Our whole body is born and maintained in equilibrium. When the quantity of water or fluid comes down in our bodies, we become thirsty and we seek and drink water or some fluid. That restores the equilibrium or wholeness or stability. When we are tired, we seek and find rest to restore the equilibrium. When we feel hot, we seek and find the shade and the homeostasis or balance is restored. Similarly, once I heard the word of wisdom of Jesus, “ I am the source of your equilibrium. Be at my feet.” The reason He used this word was that He knew that I was teaching a large number of people what I call Eqthinking or Equilibrium Thinking. When we are in need of healing, we seek Jesus like the woman with the chronic case of bleeding and we will be restored to equilibrium or Shalom wholeness. When we are in pain, we seek Jesus and He comforts us. When we are in need, we seek Jesus and He supplies our need out of His riches in eternity. When we are in fear or anxious, He calms us like a mother comforts her child. In order to be in equilibrium all our days and all our lives, we need to be at the feet of Jesus or in constant communion with Him. We cannot touch His clothes but we can seek and be touched by His Word. Other teachers like Buddha taught that we can be freed from suffering when we are freed from desire. But need or desire is a natural part of the processes of life. It is inevitable and only physical death can free a person from desire. Jesus told the woman He had unwittingly healed, “ Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” She had already experienced freedom from the suffering caused by her chronic ailment but here Jesus was blessing her so that she would have equilibrium in every situation and freedom from suffering of every kind. Suffering in this life is caused by the separation from God caused by sin, willful and as well as inherited and unconscious. When the woman touched Jesus, she was healed but when Jesus touches our lives, we are restored to peace or equilibrium with God and freed from our suffering. Indeed, we cannot have a touch of God without a taste for God. Prateep V Philip https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=BVX36A1GeNCGKM&tbnid=GKfjKEAG4qJYKM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fpraise2themanjs05&ei=m_Q3UaLeBc3PlAXJxoG4Dg&bvm=bv.43287494,d.bmk&psig=AFQjCNGD8I5CKeICqdOWCLK1OMZHUerM_w&ust=1362707975716409 Listen to this song: He touched me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1g9tH2osQQ