Day 16: Just a nobody?

Posted by: Sean (the Intern)

Have you ever heard someone ask, “who all is there?” and then the answer to that question be nobody, when in actuality there were plenty of people there.   I have heard that question and that answer more times than I can count. 

In Luke, Jesus was teaching on the Sabbath and saw a woman that had been bent over for 18 years because of a spirit.  When Jesus saw her and healed her and she stood straight up immediately.  This crippled woman was the nobody that we so often talk about when we answer that question of who all is there.  This woman really was a nobody in her society.  She was a nobody for two reasons, the first reason was that she was a woman and the second reason was that she was crippled. Those two reasons in that time period pretty much made her the scum of the earth in everyone’s eyes, except for Jesus.  Jesus saw her and did not see woman who was a cripple he saw a child of God. 

So next time that you are hanging out somewhere and you are asked who is there remember that the people that you don’t know are not nobodies.  The rest of this week as you are going about your daily activities keep in mind that Jesus noticed the “nobodies” and loves them just as much as he loves us. These nobodies are people just like you.  These nobodies are the beloved children of God just as you are.