Pain in the neck

"Tiger Woods said tests Wednesday showed an inflamed neck joint that causes pain and makes it hard for him to turn his head, an injury that will require little more than medicine, massages and rest." ESPN

Tiger's recent withdraw from the TPC tournament and diagnosis reminded me of a situation that my wife and I had to work through last year. Melissa has neck pain for three days. We took measures physically by seeking a doctor and we also pursued God in prayer in a spiritual sense. What we found was Melissa did have neck pain caused by anger and loneliness toward me for being out of balance professionally. She confessed it and we prayed together, the next day her pain went away.

When I heard about Tiger's neck pain, I thought about stress of life and the potential ramifications physically. In Mark 2:1-12 Jesus heals a paralytic by forgiving his sins first, then the physical healing takes place.

Sometimes physical issues occur as a result of sin and as a result of spiritual reasons like anger, unforgiveness, etc. Let us continue to pray for Tiger's spiritual healing and consider the spiritual implications of our own physical challenges (not sleeping well, grinding teeth, neck pain, headaches).

Ask God if there are any spiritual reasons if you have physical disturbances. If there is sin confess it and receive God's healing. Also good to cover both basis by seeing a doctor if necessary. As we say, "Could be spiritual, could be physical."

Make it a great day!