Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ken had been diagnosed as having AIDS, the dreaded immune deficiency syndrome that means almost certain death to anyone catching it. For one year he had lived with his death sentence. That alone was difficult. But Ken found something even more difficult. He said, "What's really bad is that you are considered condemned property. PeopIe look at you as someone who has done a great evil and is now being punished by God for this great sin. And since AIDS is so deadly, people avoid touching me or anything I touch.