18 years bent double

And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?”
Luke 13:16 NRSV

https://bible.com/bible/2016/luk.13.16.NRSV

Jesus saw a lady bent double, who had been so for 18 years. Without her asking, he healed her and she immediately stood straight and praised God. All the synagog leader could think though was this should not have been done on the Sabbath.

That is the way the faithful servant of God saw things, the revelation he had, God ordained, central to the utterances of God to Moses; a practice that identified the faithful being forgotten.

In the story we see the compassion and generosity of Jesus. We see how God views the ordinances of Moses. We see the failing of a system and the importance of people and that, all that is of God is only good.

The challenge to our hearts might be to ask, what are we faithfully following, which maybe God revealled to us, that is keeping people away from Jesus, bent double and afflicted?

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