Make You Walk Erect

Make you walk erect!

Leviticus 26:13 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.”

I remember an incident that happened before my salvation, also during the time I was a young mother working as a personal secretary for the CEO of a Public Limited Company, big position with AC cabin alright, but I was a slave. I was skinned throughout the week with no rest and time for my family and my young daughter Shalina. On a particular Sunday, while I was planning to stay with her, the chairman asked me to come to his house with his mails. My husband along with my daughter came and dropped me at the gate and left, I had to walk the long garden to reach his palatial house, as I was walking with a heavy heart, his dog came behind and bit my leg. As I was writhing with pain and fear, his wife told me, ‘don’t worry, the dog is vaccinated’. I have tasted the pain, agony and anxiety that goes with working in the Corporate world for close to 15 years before joining the Lord’s vineyard as full time servant.

Though I had worked in some of the best multinational organizations, I felt in my heart “would I be released from this life of slavery”, one day Jesus walked into the plush office that I had slogged for several years and anointed me to be His Servant. Today my life is jam-packed with activities from dawn to night with various projects; however, I am not a slave to anyone ANYMORE, in fact, I sit in the best, cozy, luxurious chair ( that I did not buy) and have my own cabin. God not only delivers you from whatever kind of slavery you may be at: home, office, some kind of habitual sin, fear, sickness, debts; but He also makes you walk erect. I like the last portion of the above scripture, “ God will make you walk erect!” Wow!

Whatever humiliation, mockery, criticism you might have faced in the past, God will change that friend. When we were unable to pay our house rent on the very first month after we relocated our ministry to a new city Hyderabad, the owner asked us, ‘why did you come to Hyderabad for ministry if you are even unable to pay house rent?’ I had no answer though, but today after 10 years we are paying rent for three buildings promptly , He is the lifter of our head! Stay patient and endure sufferings, don’t borrow or do things with your own strength but wait for God to bail you out! Amen.

A) You need the touch of Jesus:

Luke 13:11 And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

12 When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness."

13 And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.

This woman was going to church for 18 years, yet she was bent double because of a spirit the Bible says. There are many people born in Christian homes; yet, are bent without delivery (like me) because they did not have the touch of Jesus in their lives. I had worked a few years in a Five star hotel, and watched people suffer under shift duties and tremendous pressure. Just when they plan to finish duty and leave, they would be told that they have to extend and do double duty because someone did not turn up for work. I had watched people cry under pressure; however, these people will never want to surrender their lives to Christ and get freedom. The world is full of people who are under bondage to people, work, habits and what not; but listen to me, we need the fingers of Jesus to touch us and deliver us.

Watch this, verse 13 says: “He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.” When the hands of Jesus touched her, this bent woman now does a catwalk on a ramp with Jesus by her side and also glorified Him. Jesus would give you confidence, courage, poise and dignity that you thought you never had. God would make you walk upright!

• Did He not make Ruth, the widow who lost everything in her life to again walk upright with Boaz? God would rebuild your broken life and make you walk erect again, say Hallelujah!