Luke 13:11-13 ---
11 a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.12When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 13Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
Hi-yah People! So, picture this, what if you were the woman at the well, crippled for 18 years? Imagine for the past 18 years of your life, you couldn't move. For some of us, that is our entire life to date, plus some. Your whole life is effected by this. Your experience of a sunset doesn't involved vivid colours, but it's all shadows and darkness. Your conversations aren't filled with smiles and eye contact but with the sight of familiar feet, and the sound of a voice. What would it be like to spend all day everyday on the ground -- never looking up?
Journal how your life would be different if you spent the next 24 hours crippled. Think about the sights you wouldn't see. Smiles, sunset, a computer screen. Relationships you couldn't enjoy and activities you couldn't handle.
If you were unable to straighten up at all, how would your life be "crippled"? Close your eyes and imagine that, then journal.
Now... imagine what it would be like to encounter Jesus. You can't look at His face but you can see His sandals. However, after all the years of not being able to look up, your sense of touch is heightened. You feel on your head the wide strong hand of a carpenter. Likewise, your hearing is becoming stronger, you are alerted by the sound of a gentle voice, "You are set free."
Stunning! From stooped over to standing up. From pleading for Mercy, to praising for Grace.
Read this passage a few times, journal, then ask yourself how this Woman's story reflects your own.
-Colton
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