This story is fascinating not only as a healing event but also as a case study for the journey from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. Jesus calls this woman “a daughter of Abraham,” but she is still under the control of the evil one. How can one be in two opposite places at the same time? Only God knows one’s battles during the dark night of the soul, and we have no business in pointing to the speck in one’s eye while neglecting the log in our own eye. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and restore in us the original image of God! (1 John 3:8)
