Healing is Restoring to Life | Rev David Pileggi

In Mark 5, we are faced with two accounts of healing: that of a woman with an emission of blood, and the raising of a young girl from the dead. Both are examples of life-restoration. The latter story is more obvious, but the former story also deals directly with death (as "the life is in the blood," Leviticus 17:11). Jesus, then, is God-at-war with death–rescuing us from the inevitable consequence of our sinful, fractured world. We, too, wage war on death as we embolden one another further into faith, by which we invite God's rule and reign over our lives to rid us of death itself. Readings: Lamentations 3:22-33; Psalm 130; Mark 5:21-43