Acts 17:28 says, referring to God, “In him we live, and move, and have our being.” A year ago in May when getting out of bed I suddenly experienced excruciating pain in my back. I could barely move. I didn’t want to accept this condition.
So I asked myself the following question: Do I really live in Him, in God’s kingdom, if I can barely crawl out of bed? If I’m not even able to sit down on the floor to play with my little granddaughters, let alone get back up? Do I need to avoid all physical activity and allow my freedom of movement to be heavily restricted? “This cannot be true!” I said to myself. And in reality it wasn’t true and it wasn’t real, because if I know that I live “in God,” then I also realize that I cannot experience pain, since God is only good.
I wasn’t feeling sad or desperate, because I knew, “There is a way for this to be healed!” I had only to see that way and then walk in it. Immediately I remembered a verse from the Gospel of John: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
