HELLO I AM THE CRIPPLE JESUS IGNORED!
Hello, I Am The Cripple Jesus Ignored!
I know
many of you out there will shout me down and scream.. Blasphemy!
Would you believe me
if I told you I was older than Jesus since I spent some 40 years begging for
alms at the Temple?
Hello.
I was born and raised a cripple. I spent my whole life in a horizontal position
because my feet were too weak to carry my heavy body.
I couldn’t even
afford to crawl since I was paralyzed waist down.
It is
hard for me to begin to tell you just how bad it felt to spend days without end
watching people walk into the Temple to worship.
It felt like a death
sentence to be left all alone outside the House of God!
Does
God even know I existed? My heart would cry invisible tears sometimes.
Even though I spent
forty years sitting outside the Temple; no one, not even my family saw the need
to carry me inside to worship.
I
really have no idea why people like me were not considered deserving to also
worship in the Temple like ordinary folks.
If this was part of
the Law of Moses, I wouldn’t be able to tell.
Thinking
about my past experience around the Temple, a flash image of a twelve year old
boy whooshes past my mind.
I must have been 19
years old when I heard rumours of Jesus debating with the Religious Leaders
inside the Temple.
Hello.
I am the cripple Jesus Ignored. It is hard for me to tell you I was there when
Jesus whipped the money changers and drove them out of the Temple. I have never
seen the Man so angry that day.
And the blind and
the lame came to Him in the Temple; and He healed them.
Even
on this historic day, Jesus was able to make the blind to see and the lame to
walk. Poor me.
I couldn’t make it
on as Jesus walked out of the Temple and gave me a warm smile.
Hello.
I am the cripple Jesus ignored. Was it possible for the Son of God to assume I
was also healed like others?
For three long years
I heard beautiful stories of how this familiar Jesus healed the sick, performed
signs and wonders never seen before in Israel.
I
never gave up hoping that just one day, Jesus would step closer to me and
change my miserable life.
Hello. I am the
cripple Jesus Ignored. I lost all hope the day I heard the Roman soldiers had
taken Jesus as a prisoner.
The
Religious Leaders wanted to try Him for blasphemy and claiming He was the Son
of God.
I was even more
devastated to learn the Man was crucified and buried. My cripple life fell into
the lowest depression after these events.
Hello.
I am the cripple Jesus Ignored. One fine morning after Jesus was no longer
around: I saw two of His Disciples walking towards me.
I really didn’t know
what to expect since Jesus was not with them.
Look on us! Peter said to me with his
hand stretched towards me. I responded attentively expecting to receive some
alms from him.
Silver and gold have
I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk.
Immediately
my ankles and bones received strength and I leaped to my feet for the very
first time in my life.
Hello. I am the
cripple Jesus Ignored. I cried tears of joy as I continued to leap and danced
around and followed Peter and John right inside the Temple.
Have
mercy Lord! Would you believe me if I told you, I saw the face of Jesus in
Peter and John?
Hello. I am the
cripple Jesus Ignored. Jesus kept the best for last since I was the very first miracle
Peter performed a day after Pentecost.
Hello.
I am the cripple Jesus Ignored. For years I thought Jesus didn’t care for me
even after healing all these multitudes around me.
It sure felt good to
know I was the best kept secret of Jesus the Son of God. Worshipping for the
first time inside the Temple was priceless!
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