The Secret of Total Wellness

Shalom is a well-known Hebrew phrase that is also used as a greeting. On the surface, shalom means “peace, hello, and goodbye.” Because of its popularity, the true meaning of this term has been obscured. 

Shalom is greater than just the absence of war and it is better than a fleeting feeling of happiness. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines “shalom” as, “to be well, happy, complete, in good health, prosperous, to be whole, and wholly.” When the fruit of the spirit is listed, shalom is directly connected to love and joy. The walk in the spirit is a walk in shalom. It is a walk in peace and a walk in wholeness. The events of Luke, chapter 8 shed some interesting light on this idea.  

“But as He went the people thronged Him. And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment; and immediately her issue of blood stopped. And the Savior said, ‘Who touched Me?’ When all denied, Peter and they that were with Him said, ‘Master, the multitude throng Thee and press Thee, and sayest thou, Who touched Me?’ And Messiah said, ‘Somebody hath touched me; for I perceive that virtue has gone out of me.’ And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling and falling down before Him, she declared unto Him before all the people for what cause she had touched Him, and how she was healed immediately. And He said unto her, ‘Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made the whole; go in peace – Shalom,’” – verses 42-48.

In this story, the woman with the issue of blood received her healing as she touched the fringes upon the garment of the Messiah. Her faith led her to reach out for the Savior, and the end result was her healing. Not only did the flow of blood stop; she was also completely made whole. Don’t miss this. She was healed and made whole. She had found the Messiah. The void in her soul was now overflowing with shalom. Her life was now filled with Him. The woman had come face to face with the Prince of Peace and she would never be the same. We can be whole as we seek to reach out to the Messiah like the woman with the issue of blood. He still offers emotional peace, physical healing and spiritual wholeness