How to Endure Irritation

Dear reader, 

I’m sure if you are human you have acquired some sort of sickness here and there, I am not immune to the yuckiness in the world. My most recent one is so odd.

My throat is scratchy. 

It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s the oddest thing to have such a major portion of your body sting just a bit, but still enough to distract you as you go about your daily life.

This morning in my time of prayer I found myself continually stopping and thinking about the irritability of my throat; I even found myself talking to God about it. 

I found myself whining. Which I am not proud of, but I must admit it was so much easier to whine about the scratchiness than to thank God for this trial and ask for the strength to push through it.

I sit as I write to you still unable, or unwilling still to thank God for my scratchy throat. It seems unnecessary, or I’m just too stubborn to acknowledge that I need Him to have joy in this circumstance. 

When talking hurts. 

When breathing is sometimes uncomfortable. 

When life becomes a bit irritating to live.

I need to surrender these things to God and trust His hand in all of it. 

Today I’m having a hard time grasping what that looks like, I’m not a super Christian who can pretend to have it all figured out. My life is truly unmanageable apart from Christ. 

What’s irritating you in your story right now?

A child?

A spouse?

A boss or leader? 

Are you able to surrender that to God? 

Do you even want to?

Today I can say I want to, but somehow I’m still choosing not to. 

God and I need to sort this out, I must leave you now so I can get right with my Lord and Savior.

Sincerely,

Your Fellow Sickened Sinner

Mitchell