{"id":27424,"date":"2020-11-12T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27424"},"modified":"2020-11-26T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:32:42","slug":"disability-whose-fault-is-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27424","title":{"rendered":"Disability: Whose Fault Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"\/products\/when-disability-hits-home\"><\/a>For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.<\/em> (Romans 11:36)<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago, my wife and I were standing in the kitchen of the old farmhouse we had planned to renovate. She said, with tears streaming down her face, \u201cWhat did I do wrong? Was it something I ate during my pregnancy? Or was it something I failed to eat? Is God punishing our daughter for something I\u2019ve done? Am I the cause of our precious little Kayte being born deaf?\u201d As I held my wife, her heart did not agonize alone. I was also asking questions, though only inwardly: \u201cLord, I\u2019ve given my whole life to your service, and been willing to sacrifice everything earthly. Is that not good enough? What more must I do to earn your favor? Is it my fault our daughter is cognitively disabled? Are you angry at me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear. My wife and I would never choose a different life\u2014 that is, life without the blessings of disability. But as we\u2019ve walked this journey together with the Lord for over three decades there have been times when, in our weakness, we\u2019ve struggled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:36) Fifteen years ago, my wife and I were standing in the kitchen of the old farmhouse we had planned to renovate. She said, with tears streaming down her face, \u201cWhat did I do wrong? Was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":27431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[1305,1739,911,953,3145,484,233,3250],"class_list":["post-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-disability","tag-gods-sovereignty","tag-godward-orientation","tag-joni-eareckson-tada","tag-paul-tautges","tag-providence","tag-suffering","tag-when-disability-hits-home","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/when-disability-hits-home-1000-36-1.jpg?fit=195%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27432,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions\/27432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}