Journal Day 5

October 6 2006 - Day 5

Mark 5:21-43
Passage: Jesus’ renown is growing more and more. Jesus and the disciples cross back over the sea to meet another “great” crowd. Jesus is met by a ruler of a synagogue whose daughter is on the brink of death. Jesus follows the man, Jairus, to his home so he can heal her before she dies. And so does the crowd. On the way there a lady who has some type of constant menstrual bleeding sees Jesus. She believes that if she just touches Jesus’ robe she will be healed. Amazingly she does and she is healed. In the midst of much chaos the news is heard that the girl is dead and the people tell Jesus that He is no longer needed because she is dead. Jesus then proceeds to take just a few people into the home and He then raises the girl from the dead.

Application: It is hard for me to imagine the amazement and joy that the witnesses of this miracle experienced. The parents must have been devastated over their twelve-year-old daughters death. To hear Jesus say that she is just sleeping and then to see him speak life into her must have been overwhelming. I imagine they went from devastation, to anger and confusion (at Jesus’ seemingly foolish statement), to unspeakable joy. The raising of the dead is Jesus’ pinnacle of miracles. This miracle is beyond enough proof that Jesus is the Christ. Moreover, this miracle is the best picture of the miracle that he accomplished on the cross. His accomplishment on the cross in relation to the resurrection from the dead is best seen in the ordinance of Baptism. It is a representation of when we were dead in our sins, Christ entered into that death by the cross and He raised us with Him in His resurrection into life forever.