FAITH CAPSULE: In life, seek God in a route that avoids multitude the agents of denials.

Luke 7:36-39, 8:41-48

Bible identified a prominent sinner woman in the city. It is written, “And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.”(Luke 7:37-38) The prominent woman, a sinner knew what to do to get what she desired of the Lord. Woman sinner of the city approached Jesus at His feet behind Him. The woman sinner took the back route to avoid the multitude. If the woman, a sinner had attempted to take step in the front, she probably would have been denied by the multitude that was before Jesus.
In life, coming out of the worst way might demand avoiding multitude. What is the challenging need for your life that demands to avoid hindrance of life? Multitude could have been a hindrance for the sinner woman in the city. A woman, who was a sinner wanted to reach out to Jesus for Jesus’ touch in her life. The woman wanted to move forward in her life. In life, taking an uncommon move is a way to receive an uncommon testimony. In your route to reach Jesus, be focus; take a route that denies multitude; avoid common route but take uncommon route. A sinner woman went from behind, at the feet of Jesus to reach Jesus.
Just like the woman with the alabaster oil (sinner woman of the city), the woman with the issue of blood also made an uncommon route to receive uncommon miracle from Jesus. The bible recorded, “Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.” (Luke 8:43-44) Disease of twelve years also took a back route to approach Jesus. The woman with the issue of blood reached Jesus from behind. The woman with the issue of blood; the woman (sinner woman of the city) with the alabaster oil, did not take common route to reach Jesus. They both came from behind to approach Jesus where there was no means for the multitude the agents of distraction. They made a move that was purposeful in order to achieve their purpose and be fulfilled. It was an uncommon approach that provoked uncommon testimony. In every area of need, seek God in a route that avoids multitude.

Prayer for today: Ask God to take charge of your ways.