By: Kim Killebrew
Well, she came. Susan Hunt, that is. She had a profound message for us. (If you happened to have missed it, you can listen to it here or on our Grace Evan mobile app (iPhone/iPad or Android)
Her message is simple. Women have a unique design, and redeemed women have unique gifts. We are the only ones who can be “life-givers” on this earth. The fall has made us “life-takers,” but Christ has restored our “life-giving” capabilities. What does that mean? How does it get fleshed out in daily life -- in our marriages, with our children, in our workplace, in friendships, our community, and our church?
Susan Hunt draws our attention to some of the women who knew Jesus. We find them in Luke 8:1-3:
“Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.”
There is much we can imagine about these women who worked and provided for Jesus and his disciples. Jesus was the only sinless one of the bunch, so it must have been rather interesting. But what we know for sure is that each woman who had been given life was moved to give life back to the One who had healed her.
I hope that we will consider this passage and pray for the Lord’s direction. May we be led to give life wherever we find Jesus.
