Mark 5:35-36 CEB

[35] While Jesus was still speaking with her, messengers came from the synagogue leaders' house, saying to Jairus, "Your daughter has died. Why bother the teacher any longer?"

[36] But Jesus overheard their report and said to the synagogue leader, 

"Don't be afraid; 

just keep trusting."

Mark 5:35-36 CEB

Jarius is right there when the woman who had been suffering for 12 years was healed, so close that when the messengers came Jesus caught enough of their conversation. 

For Jesus death was not the barrier it seems for us, it was not a permanent state. 

It's so difficult not to see it that way - in Jarius' mind he was never going to see his daughter again...she was lost to death.

But Jesus says:

"Don't be afraid.

Just keep trusting."

Jesus says "Just keep trusting me."

When we face death, when someone we love and care for is lost to death, one of the most difficult things can be continuing to trust Jesus. 

When we face the small deaths of illness, weakness, limitations & loss from accident or disease, one of the most difficult things can be to continue to trust Jesus.

Jesus invites Jarius in the face of the worst news possible to keep trusting Him.

The hope we hold is that death is defeated, that all that is lost will be made new, that all hurt will be unhurt...Jesus invites us to keep trusting Him.

#gospelofMark #GoodNews

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