Ladies and Gentleman, As of this week Noah has his first tooth! There's a tiny, sharp bugger on the bottom row that he won't let us see, but we can definitely feel. :-) He has also started taking 1 to 2 tiny steps before he plops to the ground. We're basically minutes away from a toddler.
This seems like a random reason to update the blog after going cold for a spell, but I've had a real-life application to Job and that doesn't happen often.
So, I had a boil develop in my nose last week. It felt like a zit in my nose that was getting worse, then my lymph node started swelling so I thought I'd check on this zit, turned out it involved a lot of pus and it did not improve with draining. (That's as graphic as I'll get.) Lots of discomfort, tension headaches caused by my teeth gritting and brow furrowing, and complaining to my dear family ensued.
I'm on antiobiotics now, swelling has reduced, and I have ibuprofen for pain. Still, there's been a secondary infection site and I had the thought "man! If I had a potsherd that fit in my nose, I would totally be scraping this thing out!". I looked up the verses below bc I wanted to text my friend a Job-boil joke (a relatively untapped sector of humor). Instead I was utterly convicted.
I have definitely been sinning with my lips and my heart as I dealt with a myriad of emotions and the few symptoms related to this tiny thing. Seriously, at no point through the infection could you even tell by looking at me that something was wrong- it is small! I was convicted by Job's example in his situation that was SO MUCH WORSE. So, instead of a joke, I'm reminded that the Lord gives and takes, blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 2:7-10 NASB
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes. Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!" But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
