Something That Should Not Be There

 

  Li Fuyan had been having the same headache on and on for the past four years. He’d tried every treatment imaginable to ease his throbbing headaches but nothing made much of a dent. It had all started after a failed robbery where he was attacked with a knife. The blade gave him lacerations on the right side of his jaw but he was able to escape with his life. Doctors finally decided to do an X-ray of his skull to see if there were any issues. Turns out the blade hadn’t just nicked his face. A rusty four-inch knife blade had been lodged in his skull the whole time. Once it was removed his headache went away.

  This is similar to how sin treats us. Often, we struggle with a sinful temptation and maybe we feel like we escape the damage. However, if the desire finds a way in our hearts, it beings to corrupt. Some other struggles may seem unrelated but it’s really desire growing into lust.

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

James 1:14-15 

  However, an X-Ray won’t see the problem, but a good look inside might. Often the pains we face have a root in sin we have not dealt with. That is why James later tells us in chapter five and verse 16 to “confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed”. Don’t brush off Satan’s attacks. Make sure he hasn’t left something behind in our head that might bring us pain and misery.