“It Is Everywhere”
June 30, 2024
Mark 5:21-43
We find the Good News of the Gospel in the pervasiveness of death. God, Jesus, does not leave us to ourselves to overcome this separation. “We don’t have to wait for Easter for life to intrude and death to be defeated,” writes Rev. Will Willimon.
In the face of the crisis of death, Jesus says, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace,” and “Little girl, get up!”
Notice that the man, the woman, and even the little girl do nothing except cry out in the face of death. This is a story about what Jesus did and continues to do today.
“Jesus came to raise the dead," says Robert Farrar Capon. “The only qualification for the gift of the Gospel is to be dead. You don’t have to be smart. You don’t have to be good. You don’t have to be wise. You don’t have to be wonderful. You don’t have to be anything… you just have to be dead. That’s it.”
