Show me your "nub"

Mark 3:1 "And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.

2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.

4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other"

I'm a southern boy. Born and raised in the segregated and still racially divided deep south. With that being said, we call things just like they are. No political correctness, no, as we often say "beating around the bush." We never described an amputee's infirmity as a "physical challenge"....a "handicap",...a reach deficiency. No, in the south....we called it a "nub". The amputee called it a nub. We called it a nub....and no one was offended. For the purposes of this article.....neither should you.
(My family will still call the amputated limb...a nub)

    This speaks to the power of this verse. Today in the climate of political correctness and desperation to be sensitive to everyone's feelings....we have cultivated in the modern day church a tendency to treat our fellow parishioners like a first or second date. We do everything we can to show our best faces around those we actually call our "brothers or sisters in Christ".

Why then are they the ones we are consistently the most fake with?

"I'm not fake!" You go to work or your mothers house not really concerned if you have a bad hair day.....but you'll miss Sunday school to get your hair right. We'll keep the child out of wedlock on the down low claiming it's no one else business.....won't admit our lights are shut off to your "supposed" family. But I digress.

Notice the 5th verse. Jesus said "stretch out thine hand.."
He never asked for the good hand or the withered one.
If He had asked any of us....
We would've shown Him our good hand!

Why? Because we're more concerned with the damaging of our reputation by exposing our withered hand than discovering God's restoration!

When will we learn? His strength is made perfect through our weakness.

Here's your nugget: We would rather make temporary infirmity a chronic life long handicap by masking it in spiritual religiosity rather than being transparent enough to let God use our "nub" for a testimony.

We make a temporary illness intended for a testimony into a chronic handicap.....why?

PRIDE.

LET IT MARINATE FOLKS.