Bound By Satan 18 Years

Luk 13:10  And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

Luk 13:11  And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

Luk 13:12  And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

Luk 13:13  And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

Luk 13:14  And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

Luk 13:15  The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Luk 13:16  And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Luk 13:17  And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

18 years infirmed.

A daughter of Abraham, whom SATAN BOUND for 18 years.

We have to realize that every single illness, every single infirmity, every headache, every toothache, every ache, every pain we ever feel has it's origin in Satan.  A person may not be possessed of a devil in order to be hurt by Satan.  When we forget the origin of our agonies, our heartaches, then we will be prone to place the blame where it doesn't belong.  YES, God allows Satan to affect us. We are not put in perfect little bubbles.  We are all subjected to a sin filled world and given choices to make. We choose. Over and over again we choose. And whether anything is fair or not fair isn't ours to decide.  One person may be given some thing I could never handle, and another some thing I think is easy to handle yet terrifically hard for them. We all have our own paths to go down, our own races go run with our own obstacles to overcome. 

Satan isn't an equal opportunity player, He's the dirtiest, most unfair player in existence.  God is fair, He's given us ALL an opportunity to choose HIM.  Those who are children or adults with child minds are His automatically. Those of us who aren't children or have the minds of children, have to make choices no matter our circumstances. 

We have to be convinced of the truth- this life here and now no matter how wonderful or how awful is TEMPORARY to eternity.

Satan will bind us for YEARS! Satan will do ALL he can to make our lives miserable. 

Jesus healed MANY.  Jesus did miracle after miracle, things that NO ONE had done before Him and none have done after.  Jesus healed those Satan was binding,  Jesus was doing good- undoing some of the damage Satan had inflicted.  And people complained because Jesus was doing GOOD on the Sabbath, they perceived it as WORK, when it was LOVE!

While we may be bound in some illness, some pain,  in some awful way by Satan, we can still have that same love by knowing all we are going through is temporary to eternity.  Until our Savior died for us, people had hope that their Savior would come, but there was still a chance for failure. It wasn't until our Savior died upon that cross and rose again that Salvation was guaranteed. And now WE have a hope no others before that time really had.

We must believe.