I read for the nth time about the woman touching Jesus’ tallit and being healed. This time I had a totally unexpected reaction. I realized that Jesus for her was the only hope left. She had tried everything. Spent all she had. She had followed the law by not being in public, because that also was punished with death. But now, she risked it all. In fact, she didn’t think about having to mix with the crowd and making all who might touch her impure. She was focused on Christ. Her only hope.

And I realized that Christ is like the air I breathe, like the water that keeps me alive, like this moment that I have to go through in order to get to the next one. I cannot continue living just thinking about what is next. I have to live this moment as if it is eternity in itself totally immersed in Jesus Christ. Living through Him.

As Bill Johnston says in “Hosting His Presence”:

“Revelation is initially for relationship and ultimately for the transformation of our lives. We are transformed by a renewed mind (see Rom. 12: 2). And transformed people transform cities. God is not that interested in our increased understanding of concepts if there’s no relationship increasing with it. When God gives us revelation, He is inviting us to a new place of experience knowing Him. “To know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God? (Eph. 3: 19). This verse states that we can know, by experience, what surpasses knowledge or more specifically, comprehension.” (Johnson 2012)