Don’t Just Treat the Symptoms – Get to the Source

A little while ago, a family member of mine got sick and needed to be admitted to the hospital. While there, the doctors ran quite a few tests to get to the source of her discomfort. At first, they could not determine what was causing the problems that she was complaining of. So they put her on medication to treat the symptoms and discharged her. Over a period of weeks, she was getting sicker and sicker with several trips to the emergency room. Each time they would admit her then discharge her a few days later with medications to treat the symptoms she was STILL experiencing. Well you guessed it; we got quite tired of the vicious cycle and took her to another hospital. They diagnosed her with a particular issue and started treating her for that instead of just addressing the symptoms that the issue caused.

And the point, sometimes we are going through various situations in life and we get mad at people who are displaying symptoms of something else. We must recognize spiritual warfare no matter whose hand is being used; do not be mad at people. Some folk’s behavior may make it easier for them to be used but they are not the source. Direct your holy anger to the source, the root of the problem. We must get to the source to alleviate the symptoms. It’s like you have an ache in your stomach and they give you pain medicine but never figured out what caused the pain in the first place. So when the medicine wears off you are right back where you started – get to the source and treat that and watch the symptoms go away.