The woman in Luke 13 with the bent back knew she was in need.
She was looking at the ground all the time and probably in a great deal of pain.
She knew she needed help.
She knew each year it was getting worse.
She knew that there was nothing she could do to help herself.
She knew she was wretched, pitiful and poor…(Rev.3:17)
She knew who she was.
She knew, because of her bent back, who she was and that she was helpless.
When Jesus called her over, she went because she knew she needed help.
The poor, pitiful, wretched synagogue ruler didn’t have a bent back tho and so he didn’t know who he was.
He didn’t realize that he needed help.
He thought, like the church in Revelation 3:17 that he was ‘rich and had acquired wealth and did not need a thing’.
He thought that he was ‘saved’ and religious and one of God’s people.
He knew how it went. He was good.
But graciously Jesus told him who he was.
And graciously Jesus did a miracle right in front of his eyes.
And then, graciously, Jesus went on to describe what Heaven is like for him!
But he didn’t care.
Instead the dude gets mad at Jesus for messing with his religion.
He had it figured out and there comes Jesus telling him that he’s still not ok.
Oh what a grace to have a bent over back.
my small town world... 