Awful Ailment
“So he said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and you have gone away. Now what more do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What ails you?’ ”” Judges 18:24 NKJV https://www.bible.com/114/jdg.18.24.nkjv The long wait for a reliable cure for COVID-19 or any disease on pandemic scale can be frustrating. But as long as the search is attracting consistent investment of time and earthly resources, there is hope for solution in the end. Unfortunately, the search for medicine for the soul do not always enjoy the same level of comfort and hope, without the help of the true God. Like Micah, the people of Dan and the isolated men of Laish, man engages in the business of life by searching for god in his man-made privacy, prosperity, and peace. And the man-made privacy, prosperity, and peace are always unsecured and unreliable. Since they are destructible and degradable, the ailment resulting from their inevitable loss is awful. When Micah expressed his awful predic...