The Perfect Prescription

My son is home sick from preschool today. He has a nasty cough that kept me and my wife up most of the night last night. So today he'll stay home with Daddy and get plenty of rest and lots of fluids.

Of course we are all spiritually sick. Sin though is not our disease, it is the symptom. Our ailment is separation from God.

But the treatment for what ails us is not all that different from what my son needs right now. We need to rest in the presence of our heavenly Father and ask him to fill us with the Holy Spirit.

Far too often we 'self-medicate' our separation from Him by filling our lives with everything but Him when what we really need is Him