It didn't hurt until you started messing with it

Have you ever been to the chiropractor? I used to go every few months but I haven't been to one in a long time. I used to go because I have a lot of pain in my neck and shoulders, mostly because I'm a sloucher and I don't do the necessary exercises to keep myself pain-free.

Anyway, I remember a couple years ago I went in for a shoulder issue and the Dr. pressed on this one part of the back of my neck and asked if it hurt. I have to tell you it hurt so bad that I winced. Not a ho-hum-that-kinda-hurts kind of pain either, it was a deep pain in my neck that was causing all my shoulder problems, but somehow I didn't notice it until he put that pressure on it. So my reply was, "It didn't hurt until you started messing with it."

I was reminded of this lately while listening to a recording of a speaker that I really like. He said that sometimes God will touch a part of your life that causes you pain in order to heal it. And I have experienced this situation more than once in the past few years, I can tell you. I had pain that I had grown so used to, because I was deceived by the enemy into thinking it was normal, or it was something I had to learn to live with. But God changed all that with one touch. It was a "never know what you've got until it's gone" situation, but in a good way, if you know what I mean.

And it was painful going through all that stuff, but I had to let God open up those old wounds so He could heal them. He's the only one who could. And then He gave me a gift on the other side of it all, and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.