3.―Touching

Does your heart wake up to say, “If I may but touch Him, I shall be saved?” That is faith, and do not give it up. Faith always gets the blessed answer from God. You are not asked for tears, or for prayers, but for simple faith in Christ, ―confidence in Christ. This woman wanted to get to Christ, and she came behind in the press. There is always a “press” when a soul wants to get to Christ. Satan makes that, he tries to raise up every possible difficulty; and if you are going to be saved, you must break through the press. Either you must break through the press, and get to Christ; or the pressure will press you down, until you are eternally damned.
This poor woman was determined to get near the Saviour. This one thing filled her heart, “If I may but touch Him.” There is everything in the touch. If you have not touched Christ, you are still a lost soul, though you may be as religious as you like.
Methinks I see the wave of people pressing the woman beck, and Christ passes on, He is not standing still. But again she presses forward, and her finger goes out. She touches Him, and then He stands still, and she stands still; and oh, what a difference “She felt in her body that she was healed.”