{"id":6215,"date":"2011-01-20T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2011-01-20T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:32:15","slug":"thankful-thursday-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110120-6215.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” Job 2:10<\/p>\n

The words trickled into my mind as I told my sister of my thankfulness that I had not yet experienced a bilious emesis (vomiting small intestine contents.)<\/p>\n

I was forced to accept the truth of these words and follow up: “But if God should grant me a bilious emesis, I shall thank Him for it.”<\/p>\n

\"Thankful<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, I am thankful…<\/b><\/p>\n

…that God is sovereign<\/b> over both health and sickness–and that He will conform me to His image with whatever means He pleases<\/p>\n

…that God is a gracious designer<\/b> who has formed my immune system to work exactly as it is<\/p>\n

…that God is merciful<\/b> and never gives me more than I can handle (even when my whole GI tract is cramping and I can barely force myself to take in fluids)<\/p>\n

…that God grants reprieve<\/b> through a few moments of sleep here and there and a book that occasionally takes my mind off the pain my body is feeling<\/p>\n

…that, as of yet, I have not experienced a bilious emesis<\/b>. Stomach contents have come up, small intestine contents have gone down–and God is sovereignly wise and unfailing gracious, even should that circumstance change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” Job 2:10 The words trickled into my mind as I told my sister of my thankfulness that I had not yet experienced a bilious emesis (vomiting small intestine contents.) I was forced to accept the truth of these words and follow up: “But if … Read more Thankful Thursday: Sickness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}