In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. (Acts 3:6,7 ESV)
Uncrippled
It seems lately that lots of folk I know has the sniffles. Some a little worse, some a little better. But handkerchiefs and tissues are in, and bright eyes are out.
But at the moment, I am not sneezing, my throat is not scratchy, my eyes are not draining, and I can breath through my nose! I am nearly unique because I am not ‘colded.’
I am also no longer crippled. And if you are leaning on Christ alone, neither are you!
We live in a world, state, county, city, and neighborhood of the spiritually crippled. Romans 3:23 reminds us of what we already know, that everyone has sinned, is sinning, and will sin. That is how we are crippled.
But Christ uncripples us. He fixes us. He redirects us. He heals us. He lifts us. He enables us. He makes us whole.
This is a grand peculiarity. Everyone is crippled, but we, through Christ, are uniquely also uncrippled. We sometimes still feel crippled, but only because we trust our feelings more than Christ’s promises. We sometimes notice our brokenness, but only because we trust our awareness more than Christ’s promises. We sometimes believe our crippledness more than we believe Christ’s work.
We are peculiar, we are uncrippled.