Exodus 20:1-26; Psalms 60:1-61:8; Acts 11:1-18
And Jesus arose, and followed him. Matthew 9:19
This is the only time in the Bible we find the Lord following anybody. We need not wonder why the Lord followed Jairus: along the way, a woman suffering an incurable haemorrhage “came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment”. Had the Lord led the way, Jairus would doubtless have followed closely and, inadvertently, prevented the woman from coming to Christ. Jairus could not have known that his exercise of faith would result in an unknown
woman being blessed, but the Saviour did! Could it be, dear saint, that your trial of faith today is divinely intended to bring blessing to someone else in distress? —Phil Coulson
The hidden anguish of the soul, the burning tears that fall,
The sigh that rends the aching breast, thy Saviour knows them all. —Ira D. Sankey