Many people suffer from physical, intellectual, developmental, or mental disabilities, such as
OCD, PTSD, bipolar, ADHD, Autism, Down Syndrome, split personality disorder, etc. How should we see them in God's family?
God loves them...
King David embraced a royal son of the former king, King Saul. He was lame, I believe, and David honored him as one with a disability, who suffered due to no fault of his own.
That's when Jesus' exhortation "not to judge" comes into play. Remember when Jesus was asked who sinned when the tower fell down? Again, Jesus recommended that we not judge.
We don't always know why people suffer various calamities or are born with defects. In reality, we all are born with defects because our bodies are frail, mortal, and filled with various kinds of flaws. Our spirits are poisoned spiritually because sin is spiritual. Our physical inheritance is tainted by our spiritual inheritance from our forebears, since we inherit their ungodly tendencies, the tendency to rebel against God's will.
And so we have these defects whether we are morally responsible for them or not. We just need to practice compassion because we will need it ourselves.
We are told by the Faith People that Jesus healed all, and somehow we lack faith if we suffer any defect or health problem. What a corrupt doctrine! The Apostle John even indicated that some sins lead us to suffer consequences from which we cannot extract ourselves by prayer. We don't always know when God will heal someone. As much as Paul believed in prayer he had friends who got sick and he wasn't able to heal immediately.
We just need to believe in God's power, but let Him determine what He will do. The only thing we can do is live right, and place our trust in Him. If we obey Him good things will happen, and some of our problems can be helped by God's own compassion.
