John Vandervelde - Program Director

Today in our staff devotional time we read from Luke 8:40 - 48.  The passage tells the story of a desperately sick woman who is not intimidated by the crowd that is pressing in all around Jesus, but who reaches out, touches his cloak and is instantly healed.  Jesus looks around and asks who touched him, and the woman comes to him and tells her story.  Jesus says to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you.  Go in peace." 

This is one of my favorite miracles of Jesus because it challenges me.  Every time I read it I get to the end of the story and ask myself if I have the same faith as this desperate women.  So often in my life I take my focus off Christ and put it on myself.  Instead of reaching out for Christ with a faith, hope, and trust that he can heal me, guide me, save me, and use me, I look inward and focus on what I need to do for myself.

So today let's reach for Christ.  Let's make Him the center of our lives--not ourselves. 

Remember, Jesus never fails!