Paul's Thorn - (this helped me A LOT)

[roseglass6370]

There is a section in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 where the apostle Paul discusses a problem he had and relates it to a thorn. This helped a lot to understand my OCD and God's reasoning for giving people certain problems:

PAUL'S THORN (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)

" 7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. "

 

[Daughter of His]

Me too ! That scripture gives some comfort. I figure we will understand those sort of things when we get to heaven. Blessings !!!

 

[debbee]

HI GIRLS~
Let's go a little further and see what possibly could of been Paul's thorn,.......11 Corinthians 11v23-27

Are they minister's of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft (means that he was exposed to death often)
24. of the Jews five times recieved I forty stripes save one.
25.Thrice was I beaten with rods (different from the beatings listed in the previous verse) once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep. (adrift in the open sea for a night and day and wasin constant danger of drowning)

26.In journeyings often, in perils of water, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own country men, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils of the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren.
27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. KJV BIBLE

iF WE HAVE TO GLORY,WE WILL GLORY IN OUR WEAKNESS, WHICH FORCE US TOWARD TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON THE LORD.
and God Bless You, DEB~

 

[inHisgripkim]

There is a section in 2 Corinthians chapter 12 where the apostle Paul discusses a problem he had and relates it to a thorn. This helped a lot to understand my OCD and God's reasoning for giving people certain problems:

PAUL'S THORN (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)

" 7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. "

Roseglass:

Paul's Thorn. When I read that for the first time, I felt the Holy Spirit stir within. It gave me so much inspiration and understanding of my BDD/OCD/PTSD.

God Bless You for bringing up Paul and his thorn in his side.
InHisgripkim