God's Grace For The Paralympians
The Paralympic
Games are a multi-sport
event
with athletes
with various ranges of disabilities,
including impaired muscle power (paraplegia andquadriplegia, muscular
dystrophy, post-polio
syndrome, spina
bifida),
impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency
(amputation or dysmelia),
leg length difference, short
stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision
impairment and intellectual
impairment.
There are Winter and Summer
Paralympic Games,
are held immediately following the Olympic
Games.
This year the 2016 Rio Paralympics
opening ceremony began on September 8,2016 and closing ceremony on
September 18,2016. And the closing ceremony was dedicated to the
Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad
who was killed while competiting.
Despite any disability,these athletes
displayed miraculous talent to win the gold,silver and bronze medals.Even for those that did not win any medals.
Although
Paralympic Games are separate from the Olympic Games, the Christian
Olympics have no such separation. Every Christian whether they are
disabled, have a sickness, a handicap, and/or any type of infirmity
and weakness or have the best of health and no disabilities
participate in the Christian Olympics.
In The Christian Olympics:Going for the Gold Crowns, the Apostle Paul, who compared the Christian life to the Olympic Games, had an infirmity that he called a “thorn in the flesh.” The Bible does not say what is was, but it bothered Paul enough to ask God to remove it from him three times. Though Paul’s request was not granted, God gave him something better than removing the infirmity, God gave Paul His grace to replace his weakness(2 Cor.12:9)
This grace was God’s divine strength that enabled Paul, in spite of his infirmity, to finish his race and receive crowns of gold. Read about the different crowns that he won in The Christian Olympics:Going for the Gold Crowns by S.E.Gregg
In The Christian Olympics:Going for the Gold Crowns, the Apostle Paul, who compared the Christian life to the Olympic Games, had an infirmity that he called a “thorn in the flesh.” The Bible does not say what is was, but it bothered Paul enough to ask God to remove it from him three times. Though Paul’s request was not granted, God gave him something better than removing the infirmity, God gave Paul His grace to replace his weakness(2 Cor.12:9)
This grace was God’s divine strength that enabled Paul, in spite of his infirmity, to finish his race and receive crowns of gold. Read about the different crowns that he won in The Christian Olympics:Going for the Gold Crowns by S.E.Gregg
