Coming Down With ...

This isn't a new concept for me, but rather a reminder ...

I was called this evening by someone wanting me to pray. The person on the line claimed a belief in "coming down with something." A belief in disease.

I understood "disease" to mean a "lack of ease." I looked deeper, checking out a similar word to disease, "sick", which has a definition of "distemper." Temper is a shortened form of temperate, which comes from the Middle English word temperat, which means "control." Therefore, the thought comes that this could be more about a perceived lack of control in life.

But you know what? Control comes from God, and God is infinite in all His good gifts to us. He is in control, so there is no lack of control. God governs everything, and any feeling of a lack of control can be handled by knowing that God is in control, and we, as His expression, demonstrate that control - which also means order. And God is orderly and harmonious.

And with God being All and good and in control, this person cannot possibly come down with "something," unless that something is good. In this case, it isn't good. It's the opposite of good, so it opposes All, or God. The opposite of All is - nothing.

Therefore, this person is REALLY coming down with ... nothing at all.