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Tonight's Impact meeting launched a new message series called "In God I Trust". We're going to take the next couple months to learn how to trust God with the unique challenges of the middle school years.
I opened the series with a message on trusting God with our physical bodies. It's a topic I've been wanting to cover for several reasons. First, most teens hit puberty during middle school and need to know how to think biblically about the changes they're experiencing. Two, we live in a world actively trying to convince us that appearances matter most. Three, we naturally relate to one another based on what we see on the outside.
So why can we trust God with our bodies? Because we know from the Bible (Ps. 139 & 1 Sam. 16) that God made all of us and our inside is what matters most.
It's hard enough to trust God with a physically healthy body. It's a whole different story when you're battling some kind of disability. I recently read through a book by Krista Horning, Just the Way I Am: God's Good Design in Disability. Joni Eareckson Tada write the forward, explaining how it's especially important for children with disabilities to know that "God genuinely cares...that he's in control...and he had something very special in mind when he created them." If you struggle with a physical disability or know someone who does, check out Krista's book. She writes with a compassion born of her own disabilities and experience of God, helping all of us trust a Heavenly Father who is sovereign, loving and wise. It's an emotionally moving read and a helpful tool for teaching children without disabilities how to show the love of Christ to those who do.
