Recently at the Wednesday evening testimony meeting in our branch church, the Reader included the account of Jesus healing the woman who had been bowed together for eighteen years.Luke 13:10-17. Imagine if you had been at the scene of the healing—in the synagogue. Jesus is teaching, and he sees the woman. He calls her to him and tells her that she is freed from her infirmity. He puts his hands on her, and she straightens up and praises God! Suppose that you have lived in this town for many years and you've seen this woman daily. Whenever you've passed her on the street, you've seen her struggling to get around, unable to straighten up. And now here she stands before you, perfectly upright! How would you feel? Wouldn't you know that here was a power you had to acknowledge? Wouldn't you want to rush out and tell your friends what you'd witnessed?
Why am I not shouting from the roof tops that this kind of healing is possible?
When I listened to this account I wondered, Why am I not just as moved today? Why doesn't this healing—and all the others in the Bible—stir me more? After all, I've had healings of my own. I know spiritual healing isn't just some "miracle" that happened thousands of years ago. The healings in the Bible, as well as Christian Science healings today, stem from the universal laws of God, the universal Science of Truth. Why am I not rushing to tell people that spiritual healing is still going on? Why am I not shouting from the rooftops that this kind of healing is possible?
