Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

The word whole here in Matthew 9:22 is the Greek word Sōzō. Its etymology is from a primary sos (contraction for obsolete saoz, “safe”). I love that the root meaning is derived from a cry for help. The word means to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction or to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue.

So why was the word whole used? Perhaps it is because faith provides what is missing in our  lives. The issue of being saved from drowning is a temporary condition, it does not keep you safe from it ever happening again. A more permanent condition needs to be rendered in salvation and faith does that.

Obviously who you cry out to in this case matters. A lifeguard for drowning, a doctor for cancer, a lawyer for false accusations, but in this case Jesus Christ.

Matthew 9:20-21 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Who told her that just touching His garment would cure her where doctors had failed for twelve years? Can any of us think our way into being cured of anything? Obviously not, or we would have no need of doctors, lawyers or lifeguards.

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

This woman heard a word of faith and acted upon it. Sōzō!

Job 2:3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

We know very little of Job’s wife. At this moment, rather than make assumptions about her, let us address what is shown in these scriptures. The common thread here in these two verses is integrity.

It sounds like God admires integrity. Satan now has an attack point, something God cares about, so his intention is to destroy Job’s integrity.

Job has lost his children, property, his health and now his wife. Rather than blaming a woman I do not know, let us say sin is at the root of this outburst. Sin has said “Your integrity didn’t save your children, your property or the life you once had. What good is it?”

If you have lost everything and integrity is all you have left, then it is everything.

What was integrity to Job?

Job 5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Paul put it this way.

Philippians 3:8-10 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;