Let me recap an incident described in the Bible. I would like to
draw your attention to how success out scores social taboos. In another way,
positive success can rewrite social laws.
There was a lady in Israel during the time of Jesus Christ. This
lady was diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years. She might have been
a rich lady, but still by spending for doctors for twelve years in vain
impoverished her. The greater pain was the alienation she felt due to the
social taboo. Since she was suffering from such a disease she was considered by
the Jewish community as unclean. Whatever she touched, sat, laid, ate and all
were unclean. She could not appear in public. She was not allowed to go to synagogues.
No marriage, no funeral, no festivals, nothing of that sort. Poor lady spend
all her wealth on doctors and medicine for twelve years in vain. Now all hopes
were gone.
It was the time of Jesus Christ. He was walking around healing the
sick. So this lady decided to try a healing. But the social laws prevented her
from appearing in public there was no reason to hope that Jesus would come to
her home even if invited. But her need was greater than social taboos.
She was desperate for healing. Healing or death! There was no
second option. She had no time to listen to social taboos. Healing is her
personal success. If she does not succeed she would die.
Die anyway and then why not die in the war field.
She deiced to try healing with Jesus.
How? No one would allow her to stand on the way side in public and
meet Jesus as he walk along. Jesus was always surrounded by a mass. Crowd was
the greatest challenge. They should give her way to Jesus that would never
happen with her disease.
She saw a possibility in the impossibility.
1. The crowd
around Jesus was her blessing. She dug a tunnel through the impossibility. It
was the best opportunity for her to squeeze through the crowd without noticed
by anyone to Jesus.
2. Again it
was unimaginable to present her before Jesus and ask Him to pray for her
healing. Here she decided to exercise her faith. The anointing power that was
believed to flow through the garments of saints was sufficient for her healing.
3. It would
be easy to retreat to her home safely through the crowd after the whole
process.
She executed her plan. And Lo! She was healed.
She knew that publicizing her adventure would ruin her life,
because she did something violating social taboos. How the society would
respond? There is every chance that the whole crowd would go mad at this
outrageous act and implement violence on her. Time has not yet come for
celebrating her success. She had to find a story to explain her success.
But Jesus decided the other way. He sensed the impartation of
anointing, the power and the healing. He suddenly turned back and called her
forward. The success story was announced in public.
The fact I would like to bring your attention is that, the success
was celebrated by the crowd and none questioned her of her disobedience to the
social law. Her act of going out of her house, squeezing through the crowd,
thus touching everybody unclean, touching the garment of a Holy Teacher etc.
were serious noncompliance of social laws. The Jewish society was a non
compromising race. Still the success story muted them all.
True success always has the power to rewrite social laws.
Many a time we are not speaking or acting because we are afraid of
social laws. We are even afraid to think differently in fear of social taboos. But
only different thoughts will create different pronouncements. Different
pronouncements will create different actions. Different action will create
different success.
Only different thought creates different success.
All positive success has an innate power to rewrite social laws.
Professor Jacob Abraham
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