Back on Your Feet Again
“He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up.’” Mark 5:41 (NIV)
There is something powerful about the room where Jesus performs miracles. Not everyone is allowed inside. In Mark chapter five, Jesus refused to let doubt or noise or fear crowd into the space where He was about to move. Only faith was welcome. And that truth raises a sobering question. How many times has your own doubt kept you out of the room where God wanted to meet you? How many moments have been shaped by fear instead of faith?
Sometimes we get so consumed with the problem that we make much ado about everything that could go wrong. We replay the worry. We build a casket in our minds. We imagine endings that God never wrote. And without even realizing it, we stand outside the very room where Jesus is ready to speak life.
But when Jesus steps in, He always begins the same way. He touches. He took that little girl by the hand. He spoke to her. He lifted her. There is nothing that compares to the personal touch of Jesus when you are in a crisis. You can appreciate counseling. You can appreciate community. But nothing restores your soul like the quiet moment when the Holy Spirit meets you and fear finally loosens its grip.
Fear itself is not a sin. It is a human emotion. It rises when the phone rings at three in the morning. It hits when the report is uncertain. The command to “fear not” does not mean you will never feel fear. It means you must face it and fight it instead of letting it paralyze your life. Some people call procrastination faith, but often it is simply fear dressed up as patience. There comes a moment when you must face what you are avoiding and fight with confidence that God is with you.
When Jesus raised that little girl, she came out of the room on her feet. What a picture of what He wants to do in you.
You may have been flat on your back emotionally, spiritually, or even physically. But the Lord is calling you to rise. To stand again. To believe there are still years of purpose ahead. He restores normal days, peaceful days, joyful days. Days when you can breathe again without the shadow of fear swallowing your thoughts.
So today, choose to walk with faith, not drama.
Let the valleys be a comma, not the whole story.
Jesus is with you. He is everything, and He will not abandon you now.
Prayer: Lord, bring me into the room where You are working. Help me face fear and fight it with Your strength. Restore my confidence and put me back on my feet again. Thank You for Your touch, Your presence, and Your power. Amen.
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