“INFECTIONS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 758

October 21, 2025///

Being the season of colds and flu, this is my subject for today!

When our sinuses are infected, and/or it moves to our chest or is just in our chest, we deal with (It’s gross but stay with me!) snot type stuff.

It gets in our nose and stuffs it up and gets coughed up from our chest and is just absolutely gross.

Not only that, but your body also feels heavy, and you just feel rotten!

You may know where I am going with this but let’s look at the spiritual comparison!

When we allow the cares of the world and the problems around us to build up in us and do not spend time in prayer and releasing them to Christ, they get in our spirit like an infection in our body and start producing spiritual snot and coughing and congestion that takes away our energy, our joy and our effectiveness for Jesus Christ.

We sometimes start taking over the counter medicine to help our physical infections but most of the time we end up having to get an antibiotic.

In our spiritual walk we sometimes try to get rid of the junk we have picked up from our walk in life with entertainment or rest which is not really rest because our spirits are restless and desire something else.

We can eat good food, exercise, go on trips, but until we spend time in the presence of the Creator God through prayer and reading the word, we cannot get rid of the snot that continues to build up and plague us!

Jesus came to give us Life and Life Abundantly and that includes keeping our hearts clean and pure and open to Him.

We cannot live in this world and not be affected by the things we encounter daily. So, we need time daily to be cleansed inside of the junk that we may have picked up.

The result of letting the things we pick up in the world remain will result in a bad attitude, anger, depression, blaming everything wrong on others, worry, speaking negatively about life or about others and we find no real satisfaction in the things we try as remedies.

We need to consider what we allow to cling to our mind, our will, and our emotions!

Praise and a positive attitude and freedom will rule in our hearts and lives when we realize and understand, real life, the good life, comes from His Presence.

In His presence there is peace, freedom, love, joy, and power! We need to pursue this and put it into action every day!

The old Hymn says, “Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear. All because we do not carry, everything to God in Prayer.”

Matthew 11:28 (KJV ) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

1 Peter 5:7 (KJV) Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Do we really believe that? If we do let us take action and come to Him!

Oh! How He Loves us! If we could only comprehend His unfailing, unconditional Love, how different our life would be!

Get rid of the spiritual snot and congestion build up! Breathe deeply and walk with the one who knows you best and loves you most!

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Father, forgive us when we forget who you are and who you are in us! Forgive us when we try to find relief from the stress of life in anything other than our relationship with you! May we each one who reads this lean on you and understanding you fight our battles and guide us into seeing with eternal values the things around us! Forgive us when we whine! In you we are more than conquerors! I ask it the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!