Sunday, July 5, 2009

From the Desiring God blog:

Real Freedom in Jesus
July 4, 2009 | By: John Knight
Category: Commentary


Originally posted, July, 2008


The 4th of July is a different sort of ‘Independence Day’ for me. On July 4, 1995 my multiply-disabled son entered the world and my life came crashing down around me—and would soon include a deep and intense bitterness toward God.


I never denied that God existed or is powerful; I concluded he was mean and capricious. But it also began God’s work of creating an affection for him and for the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. I am often astonished, when thinking back, that I am now able to praise God for his goodness in giving my son his autism and blindness.


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