Many of us would have never known we were sick had we never experienced any pain or discomfort. Had we never experienced that pain, we would have never sought the expert knowledge of a physician. Had we not sought that physician for a diagnosis and prescription for healing, we’d still be sick, if not dead.
Well, often times, life will offer us up a few pains and discomforts. Many of which, are direct results of our own doing. Like physical pains, they are there to reveal to us our sin sick conditions. They are also there to remind us of our need for the Great Physician. Had we not experienced the pain, we would have, most likely, not sought relief & healing. The pain was necessary. The pain was merciful. The pain was a guide to the Physician. The only doctor that can heal your sin infected soul is Jesus. If you choose not to take His prescription of confession & repentance, you forfeit your healing. Satan has many of us fooled into thinking that just because the pain is gone, the disease is gone. We think that being rescued from the situation, means deliverance. But you can be free from situations that have caused you pain, but still be a slave to the sin that dwells in you, that put you there in the first place. Some of us are seeking to be rescued from situations. But we need to, 1st, be delivered from ourselves. Some of us are content with taking spiritual Tylenol for pain, when we really need a spiritual transplant.
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