 Have you ever thought, “I am hanging on by a thread?” I know I have. One day I was praying and the weight of all the “things” was heavy on me. I said, “Lord, I feel like I am hanging on by a thread.” I remembered the saying, if you feel like you are hanging on by a thread, let it be the hem of His garment. This is referencing the miracle of the woman with the issue of blood. This saying has never meshed with my over analyzing mind. In the retelling of this miracle she didn’t hold on to the hem she barely touched it. Holding on to His hem would have kept Him from moving to the next miracle. While I love the imagery of the saying, it doesn't work for me. I felt God remind me of Rahab’s thread.
18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee. ... 21 And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. [Jos 2:18, 21 KJV] All she had was a thread.
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