Today's complication: Jesus, me and that woman in the crowd.

Fellows love to say I'm the Problems' Complicator. How complex can you make a simple thing? If you need some complications, come to me and I will surely give you a lot.

Here's today's complication: Jesus, me and that woman in the crowd.

Jesus is pushing through the crowd. I see Him and, of course, joyfully start to push through to meet the Lord. And this woman here, is she crazy? Pale face, almost collapsed tries to make her way through the marketplace. Doesn't she know her place? Woman! Shouldn't she stay where she is and wait on … what? She is definitely pushing towards Jesus. But the place is so crowded and Jesus is already so close to ME!

Question 1: would you step aside even on your way to the Lord to let that old lady make that unclean touch?

Question 2: do you think there was any single one who really helped that woman?

Very often we are so captured with what we think is God's presence that neglect the simplest and most obvious way to make this presence real: just do what Jesus told – don't separate others from Him, don't prevent people from meeting Him – not you – now. That's what all those “first, be the last” are about.