Sick!
I don’t know anyone that likes to be sick. Now there are those that may pretend to be sick to get off work or school. But if they are truly sick they are definitely not excited!
Recently, my daughter got sick. And not only was it not exciting for her I was not too happy about it either. Now is not the time to get sick with anything because of the pandemic that is taking place right now. It causes your life to turn upside down. Life changes and there is nothing you can do about it.
I had to call my work and let them know what was happening. Naturally, they wanted me and my son, who also works there, to stay home. “Until we know what she has we can’t allow you to be here and possibly put the rest of us at risk.”
And what did they do? They scoured the place, Lysol, alcohol, sanitizing wipes, you name it they did it. Because there is a fear of getting the deadly sickness that can change your life. There are a lot of sicknesses that can be contagious and it can be good to take precautions so that you don’t get sick. The biggest one is to keep your immune system strong.
Now one thing I want to be clear about here before I go on. I am not writing this to take any side about what is true or not true about what is going on in our world today. But what I want to do is derive a lesson that we can learn. And in order to derive that lesson we are going to assume in this writing that what is being said is true, this sickness is deadly and you don’t want to get it. I am not saying I necessarily believe that I am trying to show a spiritual lesson that we can derive from anything that comes into life. And there are many!
What do I do now?
After calling my work and being band I wanted answers. I was not going to sit around for 14 days to see what the outcome was I wanted to be proactive on getting this resolved so I could go back to work.
My next step was to call our family physician! I told them, “My daughter has a fever and a really bad sore throat. I need to figure out what the problem is so I can go back to work.” I was informed that a nurse would need to call me back and ask some questions because they were not allowing anyone in the office with certain symptoms. If she had certain symptoms I would have to take her somewhere else to be tested.
I waited for several hours for a callback but it finally came. The questions were simple and because I could say no to all three they made an appointment for me to bring her into the doctor’s office. We were grateful when she was diagnosed with something that you would normally not rejoice over. But with what is happening in our world today what she was diagnosed with was better than the alternative.
It made me think
Then I got to thinking about sin in the life. We often look at sin as if there are different categories. We may think the sin of gossip is not as bad as murder so we are grateful that we may only have the gossip issue. There are so many other examples that I could give but I think you get the idea. But in God’s eyes, all sin is the same. The sins that we think as “little” can be more dangerous to our spiritual life. It can eat away at our spiritual life little by little without detection.
A disease of the body is like a sin to the spiritual life. No matter what disease or sickness you have it takes you down physically. The same is true with sin. No matter what the sin is it has an effect on our spiritual life. And just like some physical illnesses are contagious sin is contagious. That is why it is so important to keep our immune systems strong and keep things out of our lives that lower our immune systems.
Now what?
What is the answer to our dilemma, whether it be physical or spiritual? The answer is really the same. You need to build your immune system and do things that will support your immune system, whether physical or spiritual.
I am not here to talk about the physical or spiritual immune boosting ideas in-depth but I want to give a snippet to what is coming. What about our physical and spiritual immune systems? What can we do to help keep ourselves physically and spiritually well? I have an acronym that I have created to help us look at what things we can do to keep our immune systems strong, whether it is physically or spiritually. We have to have a B A L A N C E D life in both of these areas.
Physical Spiritual
Bed Time Be open to the Holy Spirit
Aqua Acknowledge that you’re a sinner
Light Lament for your sins
Air Allow God to work in your life
Nutrition Nourish yourself with God’s Word
Control Commune with God
Exercise Exercise faith in God
Dependence on God Draw strength from God
God has no fear
When it comes to our physical or spiritual lives God has no fear of us coming to Him. We don’t have to call up the Great Physician and ask if it is okay to come to Him. He has no fear of “catching” what we have. We can come to Him at any time and He will be there for us. There is nothing that is beyond His knowledge or control. What a blessing! He can take care of any disease, whether it is of a physical nature or a spiritual one.
God does not always promise to heal us physically but He does promise to heal us spiritually. Spiritual healing is the most important. If we die physically we have a great hope of the resurrection but if we die spiritually we have lost that hope. I want to be healed spiritually! How about you?
Dear Father,
Praise Your name that You are the great healer and You can heal us both physically and spiritually. I am so grateful that I can trust You with my life. And I am grateful that nothing comes into my life unless You allow it and it is for my good. Thank You for Your unfailing love.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
Keep your spiritual immune system in tacked by connecting with God each day.
Love you all!
What do you do to help keep your spiritual immunity up? Share below.