Touching or Touched

One of my favourite clubbing artists is an outfit called Faithless. As the name hints, they often drop into spiritual themes with their music, their most famous being God is a DJ. They also do a song called 'hem of his garment.' When I first heard it, I was surprised how orthodox the song was, taking the phrase directly from the gospels. However, as I listened more closely I realised there was a major shift from the original text.

In the song, the writer was waiting and wishing to be touched the divine. In the gospel, the woman with the haemorraging moved forward in order to touch the divine. Passive faith versus active faith. Could it be that Faithless are more true to their name in this song than they realise?

There are examples of people being reached by Jesus who seemed to do nothing to help. However, the majority of the gospel recipients of salvation make a definite move towards Jesus. Does our faith move us towards Jesus or are we waiting for the swish of his garment to sweep by where we are sitting?