If GOD Is In Control, Why Do I Have a Headache? by Debbie Taylor Williams

Author:Debbie Taylor Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Hope Publishers

Week Four

When Nothing Seems to Help

Day One

The Woman with the Issue of Blood

Matthew 9:20–22, Mark 5:21–34, Luke 8:43–48

When nothing works, not medication, doctor’s advice, nor friend’s home remedies, what do you do? What can you do?

Father, when we are desperate we seek You. Teach us to have faith and seek You not only when we are hurting or sick, but to seek You all the time. May we come to You in faith, expecting You to work all things together for good as we love You. Amen.

One chilly, rainy morning when the black clouds rolled in, I decided to brew a cup of green tea. Having never tried green tea, I read the label with interest. “100 percent natural! Orange, passion fruit and jasmine.” The label made it sound as yummy as a Caribbean island drink! As I continued reading, my mind wandered to prior days of coffee and chocolate-glazed doughnuts. Yum yum! I had not longed for a doughnut in quite some time, but the weather thrust me into my old desires and tastes! Green Tea… the new me!

As I reined my wandering mind from doughnuts to the little green box in hand, I continued to discover more about my newfound friend… green tea!

“Green is good,” a cute little leaf told me. “Green is clean,” another chimed in. “This is great,” I thought to myself. “I need good and clean!” I read on. Perhaps the encouragement would inspire me to gulp several cups.

“Green tea contains natural flavonoid antioxidants.” “What,” I wondered, “is a flavonoid? Antioxidants… hmm,” I mused to myself. As I continued reading I began to feel the tea was less like a Caribbean drink and more like medication! The little leaf continued, “The tea contains flavonoid antioxidants to help neutralize free radicals.” At the thought of free radicals, I immediately conjured in my mind a group of radical people waving their signs in the air and chanting.

“Hmm, this little green tea is going to do all this for me?” I wondered as I continued to fight thoughts of coffee and doughnuts. Back to my free radical flavonoid, antioxidant drink. (And all I had wanted to do was curl up with a nice comfy drink before I began my day.)

The leaf continued to explain that it would fight molecules that could damage my healthy cells. I brewed and I stewed my little cup of tea, then sat down for a first sip. “Hmm.” Well, what can you expect from a little cup of green tea?

God expects us to take care of our bodies. God has a right to expect us, as stewards of our bodies, to make good nutritional choices. But even when we do, that does not guarantee that in the process of aging, accidents, and this world we will avoid pain and disease.

God has a right to expect us, as stewards of our bodies, to make good nutritional choices.

The woman with the issue of blood, whom we are studying this week, had lived with her condition for years.

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