Christ turns back and looks around at the crowd to see the woman who had touched him. This is her signal to come forward and show herself.
When you come to Christ for salvation, you come to be ruled by him. Some try to miss that out. They want to carry on being the lord of their own life. They want to carry on listening to the same music as before, and make their own decisions without consulting him. They want to keep their own independence while at the same time receiving a benefit from him. But no, I am his; he is my Lord and his will must now govern my life.
Faith has no merit. Anybody can touch; anybody can fall down before him. We cannot deserve salvation; we cannot make God owe us anything. Years ago there was an argument about whether faith is active or passive. Is it all from me, or is it all from God? Well it is all from God, but there is an active element in me also and yet there is no merit in it. As Isaac Watts puts it, ‘A guilty weak and helpless worm, on thy kind arms I fall.’ That is the answer to the question: we fall down before him as an expression of our total dependence on him.