Are you facing a seemingly hopeless situation? Is Jesus asking you to believe the impossible?
In the last blog we saw Jesus stop and take time for the individual – the woman with the issue of blood. Jairus could have been wishing Jesus would hurry up and get on with it. That he would get to his daughter and not waste precious time with this woman. It would have been an understandable reaction.
Do you chafe and fret when Jesus doesn’t act in the time frame or manner you would like? If Jairus did react like this, we are not told.
Even while Jesus was in the process of speaking to the woman who had been healed, men came from the household of Jairus, telling him not to bother Jesus any more because his daughter was dead.Jairus could have thought if only Jesus had acted sooner and not stopped to deal with this woman.
If only. Surely two of the saddest words in life. If only we had done this. If only someone had acted differently. If only God acted more quickly. If only we could retrieve hurtful words we have said.
When the news arrived, Jesus turned immediately to Jairus and says, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe,’ verse 36. The situation it appeared was hopeless. Impossible. The girl was dead. Yet Jesus told Jairus to believe. To believe the impossible.
What is our reaction when Jesus asks us to believe the impossible? Impossible is a word that is not in Jesus’ vocabulary. Nor should it belong in ours, because Jesus is the same and His power the same today as it was then.
In verse 39 Jesus declared that the child was not dead but asleep. What he meant was the child would not stay dead. Because he would act in the situation. The crowd laughed at him. Jesus put them all out of the house. Taking with him the three disciples closest to him, Peter, James and John, and the girls’ parents, he entered the room. He took the girl by the hand and commanded her to get up. Immediately she stood up and walked around. The hopeless situation was not hopeless at all.
Nothing is beyond the power of Jesus. Do you really believe that? If you do it must change the way you and I react when a situation seems hopeless or appears impossible. We need believing faith like Jairus. I’ve seen it work in my life. Perhaps you have too in yours, but it doesn’t hurt for us all to be reminded of the need to believe the impossible.
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