Monday, February 7, 2011

I've already given you everthing you need

So it was August 2004 and I am home alone because Alonzo was still at work.  I was about to sit down on the couch to watch some tv and was holding on to the arm of the couch so I could sit down slowly.  After I sat down, I felt so sad and wanted to cry.  I'm crying to God and asking him, why is my back still hurting?  It has been a year since I had the back surgery to a remove cancerous cyst, so why does my back still hurt?  I'm still using the "grab-it" to pick up stuff I've dropped, I'm still leaning on the sink to brush my teeth, I'm still 2-footing the steps instead just walking up--all the things I did when I had the cyst in my back.  So, while I am crying and acting pitiful, God tells me, in no uncertain terms, "I've already given you everything you need, so stop "acting" sick.  I'm like, "huh"??  And God says it again, "I've already given you everything you need, so stop "acting" sick.  Basically, God was telling me that the reason my back still hurt, the reason I was still leaning on the sink to brush my teeth, the reason I was still using the "grab-it" was because I was not walking in my healing.  I was still "acting" sick.  I needed to get it together.  The next day, I decided I would start back working out.  I got up and walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes and then went into the garage to use the total gym.  When I went into the garage, I decided that I was going to trust God and today would be the day that I bent over and touch my toes.  So, I bent over and touched my toes for the first time in a year.  And lo and behold, my back did not hurt!  Like God said, He had already given me everything I needed, I just needed to stop "acting" sick.  I called my husband at his job and when he answered, I was like "I TOUCHED MY TOES!!!!!!  He was like---Um, ok.  But, it was not so much about touching my toes, it was about believing God and walking out his promises.  So, stop "acting" sick and walk confidently in the promises of God.