I seldom get sick. For some reason, I usually sidestep most maladies, bugs, and viruses.
But when it does come my turn, sickness makes up for lost time. With a vengeance. I get really sick.
This happened last week. So, while I sat around feeling miserable, I got to thinking.
I discovered four benefits to getting really sick.
You exercise regularly. You try to eat well and to get enough rest. You even take supplements. But shake the unwashed hand of one infected individual, and whammo! One little virus can take your entire body down for days.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made, no doubt (Psalm 139:14). But we are also vulnerable to weakness.
This is the tough one. Getting sick caused me to miss an important meeting at work. We planned for weeks that I would conduct a video interview, but I had to pull out at the last minute for my sick time. You know what happened? They got someone else to do the interview, and it went just fine without me!
I’m not that important. Getting sick reminded me that my participation in something is a privilege, not a right. I am not God’s gift to my job. My job is God’s gift to me.
Sometimes you have to lose something to appreciate it. Most movies work like this.
Are you grateful for good health? If not, just lose it for a while and you’ll change your perspective. Good health is a blessing from God.
I see this hope in two aspects.
Obviously, the benefits of getting sick are benefits of perspective. I’m sure there are more than these four that I’ve put on my list.
But these were good medicine for me.
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