Getting Sick

**As a warning, there are references in this blog about "getting sick"**

This last weekend Heather and I had the lovely "joy" of being home with two sick children. It was interesting to see how our kids differed when handling the "getting sick"part. We could tell that Chloe was "getting sick" because of what she was doing before hand. We would be able to run and set up before the event was about to begin. Yet, in all our effort, we could not tell when Eli was going to "get sick" because it was spontaneously brought on without any control. It was as sporadic as binary code to someone who has no training in that field. We felt awful for both of them, but with Eli, it was most frustrating because there was no predictability. It just happened.

What if we understood sin as "getting sick"? Would that change how we view sin? Would I feel compelled to no longer sin, if indeed, I did view it as a "sickness"? Can you place yourself in Eli or Chloe's shoes if we replaced "getting sick" with "sinning" or "get sick" with "sin". Like sin, their sickness effected every aspect of life, regular habits, relationships (lots of strain on mom and dad), eating... everything.

I wonder what we would do if we understood our sins to be a form of sickness that we CHOOSE. How would we change our thinking... or would we? Or maybe our sin is like a cancer, eating us up and we don't even know it. Perhaps we could all use some self-evaluation and figure out where we stand.