Healing for One Who Has Endured Much--March 21, 2022

[From March 12, 2012 archive;

adapted from my journal, March 27, 2000]

 

Lord Jesus, let your mercy come to one we love,

that she may live.  She has endured much under

many physicians, and she has grown worse.

 

The present form of this world for us will

pass away without her, for as much as 

Jacob loved Benjamin, we love her.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Gen. 44:18-34

1 Cor. 7:25-31

Mark 5:21-43

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 119:77

Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; 
          for your law is my delight.

 

Gen. 44:34

“…For how can I go back to my father if the boy [Benjamin] is not with me?  I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”  [Judah, to Joseph]

 

1 Cor. 7:31b

For the present form of this world is passing away.

 

Mark 5:25-26

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years.  She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse.