And He laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. Luke 13:13 ESV1
Read Luke 13:10-17
I was traveling through the center of a city near my home with two of my friends. We passed a church building that was for sale. There was a sign out front. My one friend said, “I wonder what is going in that building. It must be a business from a foreign country. The sign is written in letters that are unfamiliar to me.” My other friend contradicted her. “Oh, no,” she said, “The sign reads ‘First Presbyterian Church.’ It is just upside down and backward.” Then we all saw it. Indeed, in an attempt to show that the building would soon be changing hands, the seller or the realtor had taken out the transparent, printed panel of the sign and had replaced it upside down and backward.
When I think of that event, I think of Jesus. Much of what He said and did seemed (and still seems) upside down and backward. This next account illustrates that truth perfectly.