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Sacred Vulnerability

 As a disabled person and a Christian, I can talk about my faith and the sacredness of people living with a disability. I like to think that I am still capable of many things, and one of those things includes my faith. Jesus Christ came for the outcasts, and welcomed and healed those who were excluded from common society. Our current culture has lost the value that God puts on the vulnerable, and at the end of this age, we will be judged by how we treated the least of these. 

God himself in the person of Jesus Christ became vulnerable when he was born in this world, and he especially became vulnerable when he died on the cross for our sins. Jesus Christ suffers with the vulnerable and the poor, because he identified with them when he was on earth. The bible says “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for there is the Kingdom of heaven.” There is a sacredness to vulnerability which should be reestablished and protected in our culture. 

My vulnerability has allowed me to experience God in a way that I couldn’t before, but even before I loved and cherished the vulnerability in others, because God revealed that to me even then. There is a bonding of hope when we share and support those who are less fortunate, and all throughout the bible God warns those who exploit the poor. (Proverbs 22:22-23) 

When our society treats the vulnerable with dignity and respect, God blesses us (Psalm 41). Consequently God judges our society when we don’t. We diminish our humanity by not doing this, and we do violence to God’s image inside us. God was fully human in Jesus Christ, and part of our salvation is God making us fully human as well. Disability doesn’t diminish God’s image in us, it makes us more like God, which is the sacredness of being saved! The bible says we were predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ, (Romans 8:29) and disability can be used by God to make us more like Jesus. There is a sacredness to vulnerability that must be cherished and protected if our culture is ever going to recapture our humanity in the Lord. This is Mike.


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