But the good news is that when Jesus saw her, He immediately called her forward. I imagine she felt completely unnoticed and alone.
In the midst of a large crowd gathered around Jesus that Sabbath day, He somehow noticed her, and suddenly He stopped teaching.īent over and frail, she was someone whom others avoided. This woman 'had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years,' was bent completely forward and could not straighten up. Have you ever been struggling through a difficult situation and wondered, 'God, where are You? Do You see what I'm going through? Do You care?' If you're familiar with the story in Luke 13 of the crippled woman who came into the synagogue where Jesus was teaching, I'm sure that she had wondered the same thing thousands of times.
