As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for
encouragement, hope and even direction in life.
Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and
fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s
hand is in all of this. People that
don’t know the God of the Bible may see chronic illness as another reason to
question his goodness or even his existence.
Christians may struggle with keeping their focus on Christ and
remembering where our hope is found.
Because of this, I decided to put together a blog series reflecting on Scripture
that I feel relates to living with rheumatoid autoimmune disease (aka rheumatoid arthritis / RA / RAD) in some way—e.g., as
encouragement and hope, as prayer and honesty before God, or as learning to
understand God and trust him through all situations in life. Wherever you're at in your spiritual journey, I hope you find this helpful.
In this first post, I want to focus on a passage
of Scripture from the book of 2 Corinthians (a letter written from the apostle
Paul to the early Christians in Corinth).