Jesus touched people with diseases everyone else avoided. If you feel untouchable, He’s not scared of you.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Shame tells you that you are contaminating, that getting close to people is something you are doing to them. The pattern in those stories runs the other way: the ones everybody kept their distance from got reached for first, deliberately, in public. If you have ever felt like a risk to be managed, that is worth sitting with. Nothing about your body, your diagnosis or your history makes you somebody to be handled from a distance.
You might tell one trusted person the thing you assume disqualifies you. Be the person who does not flinch when somebody tells you theirs.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What about yourself have you assumed God would rather avoid?
MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE
- Agreeing with every sermon and changing nothing on Monday is like buying cleats and never leaving the bleachers.
- Church might be the only room where a toddler, a CEO and a lonely widower all sing the same song a little off-key.
- Your mind wandered during prayer? Walk it back. That walking back is part of praying.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.