Somebody Touched Me

    When the woman with the issue of blood came behind our Lord and touched the border of his garment, the scripture says, "Immediately her issue of blood ceased." The Lord Jesus said, "Who touched me." Peter replied, "Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, who touched me?" The Lord said, "Somebody touched me; for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me."

    Can you tell me why when the multitude touched his hands and clothes that nothing happened, yet when this woman (who had heard of the Lord Jesus and who said in her heart, "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole!") touched him, He immediately said, "Who touched me?" Here are the reasons:

1. Hers was the touch of need! Her disease was fatal; death was in the blood and the nature, and she knew it.

1. Hers was the touch of desperation and inability; nothing and no one could help her. Human failure drove her to him.

1. Hers was a touch of faith. Her confidence was born of what she heard of him! "If I can but touch his clothes, I shall be healed."

1. Hers was a touch of assurance! "I said not to the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain; look unto me and be ye saved, for I am God and there is none else."