Hey everyone!!! I’m posting another blog that will be one of my last blogs of the race! So I am posting a blog about my foot infection that I have literally had the entire time in Zambia! This foot infection has been an ongoing process since my first trip to a village in month 1 of Zambia. It began with an infection in my foot that randomly started oozing out liquids and finally started to heal and scab over. I thought since it scabbed over that after time it would just go away and be healed. …. Nope! Instead it decided to flare up 2 to 3 weeks later and got badly infected, however this time my entire foot began to swell. Finally it started to heal up going into month 3 of Zambia and it was almost gone! I was so excited, I thought this was it! This is when I’m finally free from this! …. Again I was just in the bush these past 3 days and I woke up looked down and saw my foot covered again in open wounds that randomly appeared out of nowhere. I am sitting in a cafe writing this blog right now still with an infected foot that refuses to go away, and after this long and when I had to leave the bush a day early, I was frustrated and upset, and I just said, “God, why won’t this heal!!!?” Then last night, sitting on the couch, I began to think about it; I begin to think of this long drawn out process with my foot and I thought about it in a spiritual sense. Imagine my foot infection being sin! It’s infected a part of my body and has affected not just that part, but it has affected my whole body in general. Physically it has brought me down because I haven’t been able to go and do the things I’ve been wanting to do, but also emotionally, and because I’ve been upset and frustrated because I’m missing out on things I want to be apart of. When we are living in sin and don’t allow God to heal those areas in our lives that have taken over, it doesnt just affect you in that moment, but those things can have deep roots that grow deeper in deeper and are extremely difficult to be rid of. Those things can not just affect you on the inside or outside but it affects all of you. You can’t just sit around saying hey that addiction to porn, or addiction to drugs, or addiction to alcohol, it’ll just go away by itself and I don’t need to do anything. By you ignoring all those different situations you’re letting those roots grow deeper. We are in a spiritual battle each day fighting against the flesh and if you don’t stand up to the flesh it’s going to consume you. You might be actually trying to get clean of those things, but if you don’t keep your guard up then those old issues are going to come back and hit you even harder than before. There is grace for your sins of course and that is part of the healing, but don’t use grace wrongly! Romans 6:1-2 “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? We need to stop and pick those roots and start the healing process so that we don’t deal with the annoying, frustrating things that hold us back from the freedom we have in Christ! This is just to encourage each and everyone of you! Let’s walk in freedom from the enemy and start the healing today! Don’t just partially heal yourself from it because it will come back! Allow the Lord to heal it completely and let’s walk in freedom.
