There is always pain in our lives. Whether it is self inflicted, or otherwise.
Just as in all of such cases, you can either choose to live with the pain, or get rid of the thing that is causing so much agony.
I have always had flawed teeth since the day that I was born. I have been fighting an uphill battle all my life. Recently I have had some serious pain in my jaw.
At first it was causing me headaches, so I just assumed that it was caffeine headaches since I had been so used to drinking coffee all the time. I then got some caffeine in my system…the headaches persisted.
It eventually got to the point that my jaw started to hurt and I was in so much pain that I couldn’t chew. Pain relievers weren’t helping.
On the day we got back from the handy-cap walk-a-thon in KL, our host took me to her doctor friend who informed me that I had an abscessed tooth. At this point I’m both shocked and calm about it because I have been dealing with this sort of thing my whole life, so why wouldn’t it happen in Malaysia??
I eventually got the tooth pulled and when I did, through prayer and God’s grace, the healing has been very quick, and the pain was virtually existent.
God is always faithful and always full of grace and mercy. The tooth got pulled later than I wanted, I missed things in ministry that I wish I had been there for, and yet I was there for everything that I needed to be.
Just because we want to be somewhere, doing something else, doesn’t mean that it is what is best for us. But God knows that.
I am not almost completely healed. No pain. And have learned a lot in the process.
When there is harm being done to you, whether that be on the outside or in, you eventually have to get rid of the cause. The only trouble is, the longer you wait, the worse the issue can get.
It may be stress from over working yourself when you don’t need to. It may be physical pain from doing activities that you know full well that you shouldn’t be doing. It may be mental fatigue because you don’t let yourself get enough sleep because you’re staying up working or studying for school. It may even be a drug addiction. Whatever that pain is, you and only you can decide when to stop.
If you wait any longer, the pain may only get stronger. But I pray that when that cause is finally removed, you realize that God is working on the healing process for you just like He is working on the healing process for me.
God can do all things through all people, even in Malaysia and even through you!
You just have to trust that He will do the healing if you do the removing.
God bless you all! I love you!
