THE DISABLED JESUS

Among all of the attributes of the triune God three, in particular, are best known, and most discussed: Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence.

All powerful. All knowing. All present.

At least this was true until about two thousand years ago. However, at about that time it all changed. For you see, God suddenly had a new experience. (And you never knew God was capable of having a new experience). He clothed Himself in flesh. He became a man. Of course, He started out as a baby.

I have previously written about our Lord’s decision to limit Himself. However, it occurred to me today that He did much more than limit Himself. From the moment the Holy Spirit made it possible for Jesus to metamorphose into the womb of Mary, He became… disabled. (Yes, He did).

The Disabled Jesus

For you see, from that point forward until today, and forevermore our Lord, Savior and Messiah wore a body, and voluntary surrendered one of His three most important attributes. Omnipresence. You see, if Jesus appeared in your living room at this moment that is the only place He would be.

How, then, would I prove that the King of kings and Lord of lords is disabled? Well, don’t we characterize a person who has lost one or more faculties as “disabled?” If a man rolls up to us in a wheelchair, and cannot use his legs, he is obviously disabled. Jesus has done much the same thing. He has given up one of His faculties so that He might better identify with us, and we with Him.

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Granted, God, the Father and God, the Holy Spirit continue to enjoy Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence. However, Jesus can no longer be all places at all times, nor even in two or three places at one time, but, rather, only one.

The Disabled Jesus

It was always His plan to be born of a virgin, to walk and talk among “the children of men,” to be hung on a cross, to die for the sins of mankind, to rise from the dead on third day, to ascend into heaven, and we have every reason to believe He will return for His body, the Church, in the not too distant future.

As a result, the writer of Hebrews encourages us with the following words:

“We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all ways tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy for our failures, and grace to help in the time of need.” (Hebrews 4:15-16)

The disabled Jesus IS touched with our trials, troubles, and turmoil since He voluntarily limited Himself, and became disabled for us. And because He chosen to become like us, and over the course of His thirty-three years on earth surrender His glory, and thus far, and forevermore divest Himself of one-third of His most wonderful and amazing attributes, we have been encouraged to walk right up to the throne of His Father, and lay our petitions at His feet!

The Disabled Jesus

I have never heard our Lord referred to as “disabled,” and yet He totally fits the profile for He has put on a body, He has limited Himself, and He has surrendered one of His primary attributes.

The Disabled Jesus

It was just a stray thought which came to me today. I will never think of our Lord Jesus Christ, His life, His mission, and His ultimate fate, and ongoing existence the same way again.

 by William McDonald, PhD. Copyright pending

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