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Mark 5:32-34 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.  Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.  He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you.  Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” 
The first word Jesus said to this poor, frightened woman was “Daughter”!
It is hard for us to imagine the impact that this one word would have had on her.  For twelve long years she had been excluded from the Lord’s people.  Her continuous “bleeding” would have rendered her perpetually “unclean” (Leviticus 15:25) and therefore unable to participate in the temple worship or any of the festivals – she was ‘outside the family’!  Now she has been miraculously healed by surreptitiously touching the edge of Jesus’ clothing, but the miracle-worker seems agitated by what she has done.  Will he rebuke her?  Will he berate her for making him ‘unclean’ by this contact (Leviticus 15:19)?  Her brief moment of relief and joy is now turned to ‘fear and trembling’.
She has become quite accustomed to avoidance and exclusion, so perhaps this is the way it will always be; but Jesus addresses her with the very inclusive term, “Daughter”!  What a wonderful picture this is of the salvation we can experience through faith in Jesus!  As the Apostle Paul said: “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
If we have experienced this ‘washing’, this ‘justification’ and ‘sanctification’ that transform us from being outsiders to being insiders among God’s people, are we always as inclusive and accepting of other saved sinners as God has been of us saved sinners?  Do we gladly address them as ‘sister’ or ‘brother’ in Christ, or do we somehow forget that “that is what some of you were”, and that “if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life”? (Romans 5:10).
 “The mystery of the cross I cannot comprehend, the agonies of Calvary; you the perfect Holy One, crushed your Son who drank the bitter cup [deserved by] me. … By your perfect sacrifice I’ve been brought near, your enemy you’ve made your friend; pouring out the riches of your glorious grace, your mercy and your kindness know no end.  Your blood has washed away my sin, Jesus, thank you; the Father’s wrath completely satisfied, Jesus, thank you; once your enemy, now seated at your table, Jesus, thank you.” (Sovereign Grace, with apologies – at the end of the first verse I always sing “who drank the bitter cup deserved by me” instead of “who drank the bitter cup reserved for me” because I think this makes more sense to me).
– Bruce Christian