Luke 8

While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler's house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher anymore” (v49).  The woman with the years-long “discharge of blood” was desperate, and so was the synagogue leader whose only child was dying.  Luke shows us these two stories overlapping each other. It looks like Jesus helping the woman comes at the cost of helping the young girl.  We sometimes think our needs are in competition with another or rank them in terms of seriousness.  Yet Jesus loved both and healed both.

“Power has gone out from me” (v46).  From our smallest worry to the greatest global crisis, Jesus’ power won’t run out.  He is more than sufficient.