Written by Summer Sneed<\/p>\n
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In Mark 5, we read the story of two people who had life-changing encounters with Jesus: a suffering woman and a sleeping girl.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s life was difficult and full of misery. Her identity in her community and culture was defined by her deteriorating physical condition. This made her unclean according to the purity laws of Leviticus 15. Under this identity, anything or anyone she touched became unclean. This limited her interactions with people. Intimate relationships and friendships were perhaps impossible because of her physical condition. For 12 long years, she felt shunned and lonely, isolated in the identity of her suffering.<\/p>\n
But one day, she heard that Jesus was visiting her town. The stories of His healing power had preceded Him. With desperate faith, the woman who was not allowed to touch anything, decided to sneak quietly through the crowds and get close enough to Jesus to touch his clothes. When she touched Jesus, she was instantly healed and set free from her suffering. Interestingly, she did not announce her healing to the crowds but actually tried to walk away from Jesus as quietly as she had approached Him.<\/p>\n
Even though she felt in her body and knew in her mind she had been set free, she was still walking in the same old identity. She was trying to sneak away unnoticed and unseen. As she moved away, Jesus did something remarkable. He asked a very interesting question: \u201cWho touched me?\u201d Now, of course Jesus knew the answer to this question. So, why did He bother asking? He wanted to not only heal her that day, but He wanted to do something even more important. He wanted her to see that when she touched Him, her identity had changed and that she was no longer under the identity of her suffering.<\/p>\n
As soon as she touched Him, she took on a new identity, and Jesus didn\u2019t want her to walk away without recognizing it. What was this new identity? This story can be found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke with slight variations in each account, but one thing remains constant. Jesus called her \u201cdaughter.\u201d The woman may have come to Him unclean, unnoticed, and untouched, but He wanted her to walk away without any doubt about her new identity as His daughter.<\/p>\n
The same is true for us. Some may fear to approach Jesus. We think we are beyond the hope of healing from the sin we have committed or the suffering we have endured. The truth is that we don\u2019t have to quietly sneak up to Jesus like that woman, we can run to Him, embrace Him in confidence, and find the healing and freedom from our sin and pain. Perhaps some of us have been saved for many years, and yet we keep walking in an identity defined by our past. No matter what our history may be, Jesus calls us His daughters, and we can live out that identity in freedom.<\/p>\n
Jesus\u2019 encounter with this woman happened as He was on his way to visit a sick little girl. The girl\u2019s father had requested Jesus to visit their home and heal her. While Jesus was healing that woman, Jairus received news that his daughter had died. Jesus overheard what they told Jairus, but He kept walking towards Jairus\u2019 house. He found a group of mourners gathered at the home, but He completely ignored their noise and wailing. They cried out, \u201cShe is dead.\u201d Jesus said, \u201cShe\u2019s sleeping.\u201d Then he entered her room and woke her up.<\/p>\n
There are many loud voices in our world that want to label us and tell us who we are. Often, those identities are in conflict with what Jesus says about us, and we must choose to believe what Jesus says about us above any other voice. No matter what others have called us or what the enemy has whispered in our ears, only Jesus speaks the truth of who we are.<\/p>\n
Some of us might be sleeping on the identity and the calling that Jesus has given us, and He wants to wake us up from our slumber and idleness so that we can actively fulfill our purpose as daughters of the King. I like for my 2-year-old son to take naps, but he usually puts up a fight when I tell him to sleep in the middle of the day. He will point outside and say, \u201cLook, Mommy, it\u2019s daytime. It\u2019s not nighttime. It\u2019s not time for sleeping.\u201d Jesus is saying the same thing to every girl and leader in IPHC Girls\u2019 Ministries: \u201cIt\u2019s not the time for sleeping, my daughters. Arise, wake up!\u201d
\nThe woman\u2019s identity of suffering had begun around the same time the little girl was first born, and interestingly both ended on the same day. When they encountered Jesus that day, they both experienced restoration and resurrection. Thankfully, we can too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[757,20,1,27],"tags":[749,704,16,1015,1006],"class_list":{"0":"post-4002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allgenerations","8":"category-childrens-ministries","9":"category-general","10":"category-girls-ministries-childrens-ministries","11":"tag-749","12":"tag-all-generations","13":"tag-discipleship","14":"tag-identity","15":"tag-summer-sneed","16":"entry"},"title_es":"\u00a1Lev\u00e1ntate, despierta!","content_es":"Escrito por Summer Sneed En Mark 5, leemos la historia de dos personas que tuvieron encuentros que cambiaron la vida con Jes\u00fas: una mujer sufriente y una ni\u00f1a dormida. La vida de la mujer fue dif\u00edcil y llena de miseria. Su identidad en su comunidad y cultura se defini\u00f3 por su deterioro en su condici\u00f3n f\u00edsica. Esto la impurific\u00f3 de acuerdo con las leyes de pureza de Lev\u00edtico 15. Bajo esta identidad, cualquier cosa o cualquier persona que tocara se volvi\u00f3 inmunda. Esto limit\u00f3 sus interacciones con las personas. Las relaciones \u00edntimas y las amistades tal vez fueran imposibles debido a su condici\u00f3n f\u00edsica. Durante 12 largos a\u00f1os, se sinti\u00f3 rechazada y solitaria, aislada en la identidad de su sufrimiento. Pero un d\u00eda, escuch\u00f3 que Jes\u00fas estaba visitando su pueblo. Las historias de su poder sanador le hab\u00edan precedido. Con fe desesperada, la mujer a la que no se le permiti\u00f3 tocar nada, decidi\u00f3 escabullirse silenciosamente entre la multitud y acercarse lo suficiente a Jes\u00fas para tocar su ropa. Cuando ella toc\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas, fue sanada instant\u00e1neamente y liberada de su sufrimiento. Curiosamente, ella no anunci\u00f3 su curaci\u00f3n a la multitud, sino que en realidad trat\u00f3 de alejarse de Jes\u00fas tan silenciosamente como se hab\u00eda acercado a \u00e9l. Aunque sent\u00eda en su cuerpo y sab\u00eda en su mente que hab\u00eda sido liberada, todav\u00eda caminaba con la misma identidad anterior. Ella estaba tratando de escabullirse desapercibida e invisible. Mientras se alejaba, Jes\u00fas hizo algo extraordinario. Hizo una pregunta muy interesante: \"\u00bfQui\u00e9n me toc\u00f3?\". Ahora, por supuesto, Jes\u00fas conoc\u00eda la respuesta a esta pregunta. Entonces, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 se molest\u00f3 en preguntar? Quer\u00eda no solo sanarla ese d\u00eda, sino que quer\u00eda hacer algo a\u00fan m\u00e1s importante. Quer\u00eda que ella viera que cuando lo toc\u00f3, su identidad hab\u00eda cambiado y que ya no estaba bajo la identidad de su sufrimiento. Tan pronto como lo toc\u00f3, adquiri\u00f3 una nueva identidad, y Jes\u00fas no quer\u00eda que se fuera sin reconocerlo. \u00bfCu\u00e1l era esta nueva identidad? Esta historia se puede encontrar en Mateo, Marcos y Lucas con ligeras variaciones en cada cuenta, pero una cosa permanece constante. Jes\u00fas la llam\u00f3 \"hija\". La mujer puede haber venido a \u00c9l impura, desapercibida e intacta, pero quer\u00eda que se marchara sin ninguna duda sobre su nueva identidad como hija suya. Lo mismo es cierto para nosotros. Algunos pueden temer acercarse a Jes\u00fas. Creemos que estamos m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la esperanza de sanar del pecado que hemos cometido o del sufrimiento que hemos soportado. La verdad es que no tenemos que acercarnos furtivamente a Jes\u00fas como esa mujer, podemos correr hacia \u00c9l, abrazarlo en confianza y encontrar la sanidad y la libertad de nuestro pecado y dolor. Quiz\u00e1s algunos de nosotros hemos sido salvados por muchos a\u00f1os, y sin embargo, seguimos caminando en una identidad definida por nuestro pasado. No importa cu\u00e1l sea nuestra historia, Jes\u00fas nos llama Sus hijas, y podemos vivir esa identidad en libertad. El encuentro de Jes\u00fas con esta mujer ocurri\u00f3 cuando iba a visitar a una ni\u00f1a enferma. El padre de la ni\u00f1a hab\u00eda pedido a Jes\u00fas que visitara su hogar y la sanara. Mientras Jes\u00fas sanaba a esa mujer, Jairo recibi\u00f3 la noticia de que su hija hab\u00eda muerto. Jes\u00fas escuch\u00f3 lo que le dijeron a Jairo, pero sigui\u00f3 caminando hacia la casa de Jairo. Encontr\u00f3 a un grupo de dolientes reunidos en la casa, pero ignor\u00f3 por completo el ruido y los gemidos. Ellos gritaron: \"Est\u00e1 muerta\". Jes\u00fas dijo: \"Est\u00e1 durmiendo\". Entonces \u00e9l entr\u00f3 en su habitaci\u00f3n y la despert\u00f3. Hay muchas voces en nuestro mundo que quieren etiquetarnos y decirnos qui\u00e9nes somos. A menudo, esas identidades entran en conflicto con lo que dice Jes\u00fas sobre nosotros, y debemos elegir creer lo que Jes\u00fas dice sobre nosotros por encima de cualquier otra voz. No importa lo que otros nos hayan llamado o lo que el enemigo ha susurrado en nuestros o\u00eddos, solo Jes\u00fas dice la verdad de qui\u00e9nes somos. Algunos de nosotros podr\u00edamos estar durmiendo sobre la identidad y el llamado que Jes\u00fas nos ha dado, y \u00c9l quiere despertarnos de nuestro sue\u00f1o e inactividad para que podamos cumplir activamente con nuestro prop\u00f3sito como hijas del Rey. Me gusta que mi hijo de 2 a\u00f1os duerma la siesta, pero por lo general se pelea cuando le digo que duerma a la mitad del d\u00eda. Se\u00f1alar\u00e1 afuera y dir\u00e1: \"Mire, mami, es de d\u00eda. No es de noche No es el momento de dormir \". Jes\u00fas est\u00e1 diciendo lo mismo a todas las chicas y l\u00edderes de IPHC Girls 'Ministries:\" No es el momento de dormir, hijas m\u00edas. \u00a1Lev\u00e1ntate, lev\u00e1ntate! \"La identidad del sufrimiento de la mujer hab\u00eda comenzado casi al mismo tiempo que la peque\u00f1a ni\u00f1a hab\u00eda nacido, y curiosamente ambos terminaron el mismo d\u00eda. Cuando se encontraron con Jes\u00fas ese d\u00eda, ambos experimentaron la restauraci\u00f3n y la resurrecci\u00f3n. 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