For Tuesday, April 30: Fully human because of the touch of Jesus

You can’t become fully human and avoid gender, sexuality, money, politics, orientation, ecology, history, literature, economics, philosophy, etc. You cannot be a disciple of Jesus and protect pieces of your soul from his touch. Jonalyn Fincher

If you call yourself a follower of God, a disciple of Jesus, then you must allow yourself to observe all that this broken world has. Jesus allowed himself to be confronted with the hard things of the time so that he could speak truth into those things. As his disciples that is what he asks us to do as well. To observe hard things doesn't mean we agree with them. Jesus observed hard things and then spoke truth into them. He didn't shrink back from hard things, he didn't protect his soul from the things and people that kept him from being fully human. (Remember he was fully God but fully human as well.) If we want to be called and known as disciples of Jesus then we have to be willing to expose our souls to his touch. And what is his touch? The things that make us fully human and cause us to observe in order that we speak Truth.

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