Everything about Jesus is free – absolutely free. Still to know Him intimately – will cost us everything...
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years...came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?"...Peter...said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You...” Luke 8:43-45
The Lord spoke the opening phrase above to me many years ago. I heard His words around the time I started to get really serious about my walk with the Master. I mean, really. I had been in pastoral ministry for decades, but it wasn’t until I started pressing through the crush of my life’s busyness and my bondages – to touch the hem of His garment – did I experience breakthrough.
Nope. I didn’t have it together – I was still a basket-case. Yet somehow His presence was worth more than my to-do and wanna-do lists. His Word became more healing and restorative than any form of media I could have indulged in. I honestly had to plunge headfirst into the rowdy crowd of my schedule to reach Jesus. Time with Him wasn’t laying around – I had to make it, carve it out, and contend for it. I still do.
However, I have found that the hem of His garment is worth it all.