This past Sunday our pastor, Bro. John Greene, preached on Mark 5:25-34 about the Woman with the Issue of Blood. It was a wonderful sermon!! I have written a poem about that before when I was younger but this sermon really made me want to write a new one. I encourage you to listen to the message…it was very beneficial to my soul. J The following is the link to his sermon: http://gracebaptistchurchmp.org/audio/Topical/An%20Issue%20of%20Blood.mp3
~Allix~
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
She was separated from society
She was defiled and disgraced
If she had any sense at all
She would never come near this place
A thronging crowd about her
Each soul she was forbidden to touch
Though her doubt and unbelief were present
Her marvelous faith was such
That outweighed all her doubts and questions
It eliminated all of her fear
She knew that at this very moment
She was meant to be here
The law was clear when it spoke of her issue
Yet there was one thing and of that she was sure
There in the hem of His garment
Was the precious longed after cure
She had looked for it at each physician
She had spent all her living and had seen
That no one was able to heal her
No one could declare her clean
Twelve years she suffered this
Twelve long agonizing years
Not only had she spent every penny
She had probably shed all her tears
It seemed hopeless and helpless to others
But this woman had that great faith
And this the just shall live by
‘Tis what the scripture saith
So through this crowd she struggled
Indeed she had to fight
She was determined to do that act of which
Most would say she had no right
There He was, before her eyes
She reached out her hand and then
In a moment the unthinkable happened
As her fingers brushed His hem
The flowing blood that had for so long marked her
As unclean forever, or so she thought
Because now, at this very moment
Her issue of blood had stopped
She looked to His face with amazement
She hardly believed the great fact
That such a large thing was accomplished
By such a minuscule act
But what’s this, He is speaking
“Who touched Me? Virtue has gone out of Me.”
The disciples denied to have done it and said
“You are thronged by this crowd, what can You mean?”
Christ knew of course who had touched Him
The woman, she trembled and cried
She told the whole truth to Jesus
And to her relief He replied,
“Go in peace, my dear daughter, I say now
Your faith, it has made you whole”
And that woman she went now cleansed
In her body and also her soul
©Allix Brunson 12/1/09
