The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost. It is Jesus' favorite title of Himself. I chosen this title because Jesus loved this title of Himself. We ought to never forget that Jesus is fully God and fully man: two natures in One Person. He is the God-man, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. May we mediate on His life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension that we may be conformed to the image of the divine Son of Man! This blog web site will be a Christian defense of the Reformed doctrines of the Incarnate Son of Man. May all glory be to His name!

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Loving the Mentally ill

Let me tell you a story.  There was a minister of the Gospel and he was excelling in his ministry.  Everything was working out for him and he was beginning to write books again.  People were responding to his ministry and he even had people join his cause, but this wise minister despised the mentally ill. 

He would not associate with them and ran from them like they had the plague.  He ignored them and repeatedly asked them to stay away from him.  Now listen to what the minister did: he broke the relationship and slandered the people because they were different than him. 

In all the minister's posterity, was it worth his fury against the mentally ill?  Did he have just cause to break ties with them and slander them?  I submit that the minister has no idea of love and he is self-centered and self-concerned. 

We are called to love the mentally and emotionally ill.   These kinds of people are people as well.  They have just as much right to live as the wise minister.  The sin of the minister is like many today: the politics of experience change people around them and they judge the mentally and emotionally ill from subjective standards instead of loving them as their neighbor.  This was a true story.