Praise
"One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight.When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said,"Woman, you are healed of your sickness!" Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised and thanked God!" Luke 13:10-13 Entitlement is an ancient plague. Individual lives, families and even entire societies have been decimated by its deep soul penetrating tentacles. I grieve the many times I have been given an amazing gift only to fail to recognize it or properly express my gratitude for it. It makes me wonder, what might eighteen seconds in hell do for our appreciation of what Jesus did for us on the cross? The woman in our story was a prisoner in her own body for eighteen years. The devil had her all contorted and crippled. I wonder what was going through her mind when Jes...