If you know me, you understand that I see much uniquely different than others. I firmly believe God leaves a message in every, and all, that happens or exists. The challenge is not what happens but in discovering God message in all that occurs.
My latest discovery of interwoven wisdom from God rests in the pain of my bilateral carpal tunnel (condition where the median nerve is compressed as it passes through the wrist, causing pain, numbness, tingling and weakness in the hand and fingers). I’m not intending to analyze and teach all the particulars of a medical issue. My aim is to preach a God-centered carpal tunnel message.
Carpal tunnel affects the fingers on our hand. So, let’s discuss our fingers. We have five on each hand, a basic fact known to all. The four strong ones are labeled: thumb, pointer, middle and ring finger. These four are considered both useful and powerful. Our fifth finger is designated as little or pinky. It yields no real use, function, purpose or strength. Plain and simple, we boast four mighty digits and belittle one insignificant tag along.
The absolute, layman bewildering fact of carpal tunnel is that only the four strong fingers on a hand hurt, tingle, lose strength and become weak. The feeble pinky is not affected at all. While the significant four lose their value, the unvalued little finger steadfastly remains itself, unaffected by outside disease. Herein, I believe, God tucked His message. Those man hails as strong and powerful in purpose might be less perfect and powerful than man designates them as being; while those we dismiss as powerless and non-important, in reality, are above the fray and possess core value that evades many downfalls for which the powerful are prone to fall. Things (and people) are not always as they appear.
Whom do we automatically admire — those with titles and perceived strength or those who might wrongly be judged as having little value but in reality, humbly withstand the effects of worldly attack. Carpal tunnel has, hands down, brought home God’s message that “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 (NIV)
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