Go in peace and be freed from your suffering. I love that story in the Bible. Rarely do we reach out in faith to release God's power within us. We tend to rely on ourselves and our own meager strengths and abilities rather than God. Many of us have become too comfortable in the periphery of our faith in God.
Periphery means the external boundary of something, or the external surface of a body.
We can stay fairly busy at the local church, the body of Christ, and still be in the periphery of our faith. It may be our busy-ness that sometimes masks a shallow relationship with Christ. I know that for truth. Been there, done that too many times in my own life. It's hard to get to know the Lord on a more intimate level when we keep him at arm's length.