We Have Touched His Garment

Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well (Matthew 9:22)

Loneliness; it’s a sad thing.

God did not intend for us to be alone. “It is not good for the man to be alone.” (Gen. 2:18)

Thus, woman was created in the perfect garden. And they had the perfect relationship-together. That was until the deceptive fall.

Because of Man’s (Adam and Eve’s) fall, there was separation between our Abba and us—sin. Causing there to be times when Eve would go off to be by herself while Adam was working and she became lonely. For the first time, she now experienced the pain of seclusion, experiencing the most horrific loneliness of separation and isolation from God. I can imagine that she cried in total despair. Not having any girlfriends that she could talk to, no Zoloft, no doctors and no chocolate, she had to really be bad off.

The beginning of SIN; (Gen 3)
S-Separation of God,
I- Independence of God,
N- Need of a Savior.

We know that loneliness, don’t we? For it is indeed a plague of modern society. Songs are written about it with each generation. Every genre writes about it. Poetry and literature alike fills our libraries about loneliness. And unfortunately, our medical offices are overwhelmed with patients that have undiagnosed diseases that link back to loneliness.

My son doesn’t like to be alone at night. He wants someone with him. I think that we are probably no different as adults, especially in times of need. We wish we could see our Abba and even touch Him. But all we have is our faith. And Jesus knew this when He said, “Blessed is He who believes and has not seen.” (John 20:29)

Just as with the woman with the bleeding issue, she wanted to touch Jesus. She had the opportunity to see and to touch Him. And Jesus told her that her faith had healed her.

What about us? Will our faith heal us? In our times of despair or times of loneliness when God is not there for us to touch, will we trust Him in that faith?

How do we live out of the love of our Father? Our life, our relationships were always meant to be with God and then the love of that overflows into our relationships with others....

for as Jesus said:

"And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:20)

For we, too, have touched the garment of our Savior at the moment of salvation.

In Him,