Pain in the Side

     Yesterday I spent the day prepping for a procedure I had today. The doctor said that everything looked normal. That is good news, right? The only problem is it doesn't answer why I've been having this pain in my side. But I've decided I don't need to know where every ache and pain derives its source of irritation. I'm going to live until the Good Lord decides to call me home or better yet, raptures the Christians into the clouds to join Him.
     The apostle Paul probably sought out his share of medical men in his day to find out why his side was aching and he prayed three times to God to take the pain from him. But what did God tell him, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." That's the problem though for me, I don't want to be weak. I see weakness as the world does, it's an inferior state. But is that because I want to boast in my strength rather than in God's? God knows I'll be stronger if I rely completely upon Him, rather than relying on myself.

A pool in the hills of En Gedi where David was said to have hidden when King Saul was pursuing him. He could have killed Saul a couple of times in these hills, but he knew it was not in his strength that he would become king, but in God's alone.

2 Corinthians 12:Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. ⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.