Why it Won't go Away

At some time during our lives, most of us experience limitations.  They may be physical, mental, or emotional.  The problems may involve anything, including the tasks of daily living, upward mobility, social interaction, or aging.  Our quality of life may be adversely affected.  Our limitations may negatively affect the ones we love, or theirs may become a duty for us.

It is difficult to endure and persevere.  It is hard to watch while those dear to us go through it.

 We wonder, “Why me?”  Believers may take it to the Lord in prayer.  Often, God provides relief or complete deliverance.  Sometimes He says, “No.”  What do we do then?

In Paul’s case, he was tormented by an affliction (probably physical), due to Satanic attack.  He asked God for deliverance, but he did not receive it.  Paul had been spiritually blessed by the Lord in such wonderful ways that God allowed the condition to continue to keep him humble.  He comforted himself with the knowledge that his limitations would force him to rely on the power of God, which would cause that power to be revealed in all that Paul did.

…I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.  And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows— was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak…

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!  Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.  And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.  Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2Corinthians 12:1-4, 7-10 NASB)

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We may not know why we are given tests to cope with, or the reason why when God does not remove them. We do know that He helps us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)