Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

I thought my ear infection went away but two days after I thought I was cured, it was back with a vengeance right up until today and I am trying to get a Dr. Appointment for today as this is being written. So now seven weeks after being inflicted it is as it was in the beginning. I cannot hear anything and feel rotten. I have been to three different doctors including an ear specialist and have taken three different antibiotics and enough drops to make my entire head swim. Nothing seems to work. Complicating my life further I have had some difficult problems in the business world nagging at me.

As a result I am rather stressed out. I have been irritable and grouchy, (at least according to my wife and close friends). I should not be irritable or grouchy and take out my problems on others and I know it. I should just sit back and relax and rely on God 110% to deliver me as He has done thousands of times before. I trust Him implicitly in every regard, so why I cannot relax mentally and just let Him take over, I do not know. It is incongruous to say on the one hand that I trust Him implicitly and then worry and be stressed on the other.

The Bible tells us that much of our life is a mystery and answers to some questions will remain unanswered until the next life. The Bible states it is like looking in a dirty mirror and being able to see somewhat, but not clearly. One day we will understand the mystery of why it is necessary to enhance our long term well-being to suffer short term maladies. Part of this mystery has been revealed as being punishment for our sins. Life is no bed of roses and God told Adam in no uncertain terms that he would work by the sweat of his brow all of his days and thorns and thistles would be his reward for it. Further He told Him that his days, (and all of mankind), would be short and full of trouble. It was all as a result of sin. Sin is to blame for the maladies of the world. When there was no such thing as sin in the world and prior to it entering the Garden of Eden via the serpent angel satan, life was grand and a paradise. After it occurred Adam and Eve were hiding from God covered in leaves ashamed. It has been downhill ever since.

When we get down and out we must be careful not to blame God. Often someone dies unexpectedly or a child suffers or on and on and people tend to become angry with God. Satan and our own sins are the real culprits, and not God. If you are afflicted look to God as the One who can make you whole. Get angry with the sin that is in each of our lives and with satan whose mission is to destroy. Do not harbor resentment against God. It is like biting the hand that feeds us and takes care of us

1 Tim. 3:16
And without controversy great is
the mystery of Godliness…