What is Your Response?

[393 words] What characterizes your response to Jesus? All of us will respond to him in one way or another. Will our response indicate our rejection of his word, or will it indicate our desire to trust and obey him? Several different responses are seen in Luke 13:11-17. In what was one of the last appearances Jesus would make in a synagogue, the Lord saw a woman who was so ill she couldn’t stand up straight. The first response was that of the healed woman. She was thankful and began to glorify God. If any of us were in her place would we not do the same? She responded in a very thoughtful and logical way. The response of the ruler of the synagogue was completely different. According to Luke 13:14 the ruler became “indignant.” The word in the original language of the New Testament means, “to feel much pain.”…