been pretty sick the last two days.. started off with a cough which led to a headache and then to a fever which has been bugging me ever since sat. So ive basically spent the last 2 days just sleeping hoping it would get better, but evidently not. It's not a good feeling where you end up waking up 5-10 times in one night finding yourself covered in sweat, but shivering at the same time..and no matter how much you sleep your eyes always end up being sore by just having them open. though im feeling much better now, i can't say that i've completely recovered. And is it true to say that all healing comes from God? even healing from taking meds?
1 thess 3:5
5 For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.
i think the last thing anyone would have want happening to them is for them to labour in vain. For almost everyone, everything that they do usually counts for something, like they have a reason or a purpose for doing it because they want to achieve something from it. Ever gotten the feeling where you've done so much work, put so much effort and invested so much time into doing something because you knew that the results from doing it would be great, but in the end in turns out to be pointless or futile? That feeling would make you seem like an absolute fool.. either because you stuffed up somewhere along the way, or it had no meaning to it right from the start.
And i find this really relates to our spiritual walk. How it is so easy to labour in vain..how we could so easily get caught up in various things that we end up losing our original purpose and in the end having nothing. Like so often it is really easy for us who serve every week to get too caught with the act of serving that we forget the one whom we're actually serving.
another example of how easily it is for us to labour in vain is like what the verse says, when the tempter tempts us. I'm guessing tempter is satan, and tempts us would be us sinning. So just as easily it is for us to sin, which i find really easy, it's that easy for us to labour in vain. God is holy, if we offer up to him things with unclean hands, i don't think he'll accept it. That is why it is soo important for us to make sure that we are covered by the blood all the time.. nothing else is as powerful as the blood.
1 thess 3:5
5 For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.
i think the last thing anyone would have want happening to them is for them to labour in vain. For almost everyone, everything that they do usually counts for something, like they have a reason or a purpose for doing it because they want to achieve something from it. Ever gotten the feeling where you've done so much work, put so much effort and invested so much time into doing something because you knew that the results from doing it would be great, but in the end in turns out to be pointless or futile? That feeling would make you seem like an absolute fool.. either because you stuffed up somewhere along the way, or it had no meaning to it right from the start.
And i find this really relates to our spiritual walk. How it is so easy to labour in vain..how we could so easily get caught up in various things that we end up losing our original purpose and in the end having nothing. Like so often it is really easy for us who serve every week to get too caught with the act of serving that we forget the one whom we're actually serving.
another example of how easily it is for us to labour in vain is like what the verse says, when the tempter tempts us. I'm guessing tempter is satan, and tempts us would be us sinning. So just as easily it is for us to sin, which i find really easy, it's that easy for us to labour in vain. God is holy, if we offer up to him things with unclean hands, i don't think he'll accept it. That is why it is soo important for us to make sure that we are covered by the blood all the time.. nothing else is as powerful as the blood.
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