Our Infirmities and God’s Priorities

What good works might God be doing in and through us despite of our brokenness and infirmities?

Our brokenness and infirmities are not necessarily deserved or brought upon us by our sin or by other people’s sin. Sometimes God is doing a great work through our brokenness, through our flaws, and through our infirmities. It is possible that God is bringing about his purposes and priorities through our infirmities.

This was the case concerning the man born blind in the gospel of John, chapter nine. As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth, and his disciples asked him, “’Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.’” (John 9:1-3, ESV).

God’s work can be displayed by God through our frailties, through our weaknesses, and through our brokenness. In the darkness and brokenness of this world, God is doing miraculous works of light so that the works of God might be displayed.

As Jesus declared, “We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” (John 9:4-5, ESV).

May we trust God with our infirmities as God does works of light to accomplish his kingdom purposes in our lives, and in this world, so “the works of God might be displayed in us.”

A Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent: “Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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