2. Coming

And this woman, “When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind.” I do not think she waited long after she had heard. She had found that her case was hopeless,—that there was no possibility of cure. Every hope had fled, when the tidings came of Jesus, and the Holy Ghost says, “When she had heard of Jesus she came.” She was entirely possessed by two great truths,―1st, that her case was utterly hopeless without Christ; and 2nd, that if only she could get to Him, she would certainly be healed.
Have you ever got to this point, that your case is hopeless? that you are under the judgment of God, and that nothing can ensure your escaping the damnation of hell but your corning to Christ? “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” and it matters not though you have been outwardly moral, for the Christ of God you know not, and you are yet in your sins. You were born in sin, and you have lived without Christ from your infancy, and now you are only so much nearer the pit of hell, ― so much nearer eternity; and oh, what an eternity it must be, if you are Christless!
Oh, if only you were brought to this point, like the woman, to believe on the one hand you are incurable, and to believe on the other the power of Christ. She came to Him; her heart was all alive, her whole moral being was moved. She heard the Saviour was passing near her, on His way to raise Jairus’s daughter, who was dead, and faith sprang up in her heart, and she said, “If I may but touch His clothes, I shall be whole.” That was faith.