What If God Isn’t Taking Away Your Anxiety on Purpose?

The apostle Paul was familiar with affliction and fears, and he teaches us something about their purpose through the thorn in his flesh. Paul was given a thorn not to destroy him but to keep him dependent on God. We don’t know the details of the thorn in Paul’s flesh. He calls it a “messenger of Satan,” with the purpose of torment. Whether this caused physical, emotional or spiritual torment or all the above, we don’t know. But it was bad enough for him to persistently ask for God to remove it.P