JULY 22, 2021 | LYDIA BROWNBACK

Being different often breeds loneliness of the deepest kind. This is especially true when someone is different in a way that offends the sensibilities of others. For some, the difference is due to illness. Others are born with deformities or are disfigured in an accident. And for many, there will be no remedy in this lifetime. Where is God in this?

While we cannot know all his purposes in such cases, his Word reveals some of them, and through an ailing woman in Mark’s Gospel we are shown his primary purpose. The story of this woman is found in Mark 5:25–34. She had a gynecological malady, and it had plagued her for 12 long years. She’d sought all possible medical help, but to no avail. Her condition only worsened, and her suffering increased.

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