Job
was a man that understood all about life’s unexpected challenges. In a brief
period of time, he lost all his children, his job, his health, and his wife
wanted him to turn on God (Job 2:9).
The Message our hero’s health issue condition in Job 2:7-8 “Satan … struck Job with terrible
sores…ulcers and scabs from head to foot. They itched and oozed…” In the
past week or so, I’ve been relating to this inhabitant of the land of Uz in a
small way.
When
I tried out several pain relieving topical agents on my left knee to relieve
pain, something else happened instead. Instead of my discomfort vanishing, an
inflamed red rash came to visit instead (see picture).
Urgent
care increased the occasional Ibuprofen to a consistent regular 2400mg (three 800
mg tablet daily) and a hydrocortisone cream was prescribed twice a day to heal
and decrease the itching (which is still present occasionally). The good news
is that all that Ibuprofen is keeping my arthritic knee from aching so much.
My
little rash was only a small thing compared to what Job experienced. I can’t
imagine the wound mess and the insatiable desire to want to scratch everywhere.
There couldn’t have been any part of his body that wasn’t hurting.
God
may not choose to give you the answers to your suffering. (Read chapters 40-41
of this book of the Bible. God never
explained his reasons to Job for His actions.) Instead, the Heavenly Father
wishes you to do exactly what Luke 21:36 (MSG) says to do: “Pray constantly that you will have the strength and wits to make it
through everything that’s coming and end up on your feet…”
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| A big itchy ouch |
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