MythsAbout Psoriasis is a hereditary skin condition that creates large, If God does not answer your red, itchy patches called legions it is because you do not have all over your body. It’s not contagious, but it isn’t pretty either. “For we do not know what to pray for as we ought” (Romans 8:26 ESV). People tend to stare. Sometimes they times answers no. Think of this analogy: a child asks his mom to let him ask how you got poison ivy.You feel and it is a really hot day. Mom knows the dangers of swimming alone, self-conscious about flakes of dead skin the child does not believe in his mom enough. The child’s request on your clothes and furniture. It’s not all answers our prayers with a repeated no.This is not because we lack that bad when you are old and used to it. But when it first strikes you at about thirteen or fourteen years of age and the doctor says you’ll have it for the rest of your life, psoriasis can be a very big deal. It might even make you wonder about God, faith, and stuff like that. Bad things hap Psoriasis doesn’t really have much to do with faith, but I had to learn this the hard way. Having left the St. Paul had an affliction he prayed God would take Lutheran Church during my teen years, I waded up to my for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness” neck into Pentecostalism (another story for another time). I various ailments and afflictions for good purpose answered countless altar calls, seeking a miracle. I clear. Joseph spent years in Egyptian slavery and attended tent meetings with guest speakNaaman’s leprosy (2 Kings 5) led to eternal life, ers who claimed to have the gift of people in the Old Testament died “not having healing, hoping to receive their them from afar” (Hebrews 11:13 ESV). Yet heaven-sent touch. (Once, God make of my psoriasis? Admittedly, while a “healer” from has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh Africa leaned over me,
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fervently Just as God gives you the praying for the faith. Faith is not a muscle Holy Spirit, I swung my commitment or devotion. arm upward with a big “Thank and Holy Communion. you, Jesus!” and accidentally punched the man squarely in the eye.) I was always told the same thing:“God wants you to be healed.You just have to believe He will.” Each time I went home red and scaly, convinced I needed to increase my faith, make things better with God, and be more committed to holy living. I probably should have read the Bible. God’s Word would have dispelled the myths about faith I had been told. Come to find out, these myths made me suffer more than the psoriasis did!
