J.A. Matteson
"And he went with him." Mark 5:24
In response to our faith God goes with us. Let the one who doubts not presume God will go with him. We first come to the Lord in faith acknowledging his ability to intervene in our circumstance. Our coming is a display of humility. Our coming is a display of faith. Our coming is a display of confidence in the supernatural ability of God to alter natural outcomes, to intervene in, to suspend, override, or otherwise alter the course of things as left to their own patterns. With eyes of faith Jairus saw a future for his daughter of health and life, when circumstances indicated sickness and death. With unwavering confidence in Jesus' ability to heal he comes face-to-face in the presence of the resurrection and the life, vulnerable, desperate, and confident. What father would not give his own life to save that of his child? Not fearing the Jews this ruler of a synagogue prostrates himself in public humiliation before the Lord in a desperate plea for mercy, and mercy he receives. "Now faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1). In response to faith God went with the patriarchs, with Moses, Joshua and Caleb, David and Solomon, Daniel, Nehemiah and the prophets, the apostles and the saints of history. And when invited, with eyes of faith, he goes with us today, "and lo I am with you always, even to the end if the age" (Matt. 28:20).
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