Look Upward!!

Luke 13:10-16 Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit. She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or to look upward. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to him and said to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity! Then he laid his hands on her, and instantly she was made straight, and she recognized and thanked and praised God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, There are six days on which work ought to be done; so come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day. But the Lord replied to him, saying, you playactors! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it out to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath Day?        (Amplified Bible)

In this particular passage her condition of being "bent over" was physical; however, I have met many woman that are emotionally and spiritually "bent over". One reason could be that for years they have been told they are not good enough and will never measure up. Another reason could be one failure after another has set in motion a pattern of bad choices. Sometimes the burdens that we are bearing just seem to bend us over. Whatever the reason there, are women in our churches, just like this woman, that need to receive the healing that is available to them.

I have noticed a common factor in most of these women is in conversation they don't make eye contact. They look down or to the side of the person to whom they are speaking. So bent over that as in this scripture they are unable to look up. I don't know how many times she had been to church, but this ordinary trip to church was going to turn extraordinary. Jesus was there. The one who was paying the ultimate price for our healing, freedom and redemption. She received a supernatural touch that day and immediately she stood upright!!

Notice that Jesus doesn't call her by name, but a daughter of Abraham. The people might not have seen her as important, but Jesus did. This woman was entitled to all the covenant blessings that had been promised to Abraham because she was part of his family yet, she was living beneath them. So.........how does that apply to us.

Today we are not just children of Abraham but of Christ himself and heirs according to: Gal 3:26-29
For you are all sons/daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Remind yourself today exactly who you are in Christ. I don't have to be "bent over", but I can stand confident in the promises of God. Today whom the son has set free is free indeed!!!!! Turn your back on the lies of the enemy and walk in the freedom that has been purchased for you. Look Up!!!!!!