Lepers, Fat and Happy

Today’s passage is... really a picture of weakness - it’s a kind of seed theology - an emerging doctrine.
The OT is demonstrating here and in a variety of ways how God thinks about and responds to human weakness. And what eventually emerges (fully in the NT) is an understanding of weakness that is opposite and counter-intuitive to everything we’re taught in society (in the secular world) and even opposite to what we learn in spirituality, religion and morality as well.
Let’s just look at the story and then look at what the Bible really teaches about weakness:

1. Retelling the story
2. What it teaches about: the Bible’s unique understanding of weakness