Symptoms of Something Amiss

 The doctor tells us to know our physical bodies,

to be tuned keenly to them so we are aware when something seems off.

Good advice but it got me to thinking we should also be tuned keenly

to the 'spiritual body' aka Undying Soul so we are aware when something seems a little off.

The land in lack of rain is not asymptomatic.

 (a word that's been used a lot recently due to COVID-19)

...and we welcome, like little else, the refreshment of much needed rain!

Symptoms of spiritual drought are just as visible

 though discussed much less than weather!

(BTW, this poem is a self-evaluation exam, not a pointing-fingers-at-you poem

but praying the Holy Spirit will convict all of us of present symptoms

and perhaps our need for spiritual refreshment?!)

Can we truly say with David in Psalm 63:1?

You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.

Symptoms suggest illness

Help pinpoint the source

Symptoms are the telltale signs

Of something off course

Physical or spiritual

Symptoms usually are

The inklings that implicate

Something not on par

Good to be tuned keenly

To body and soul

Diagnose the point before

It consumes the whole

Fear and faith, keen rivals

Cannot coexist

Symptoms tend to escalate

If left unaddressed 

Good to be tuned closely

To the inner core

Recognizing symptoms

We should not ignore

 

© Janet Martin

The church in this COVID-19 season,

is before the firing squad of differing opinion

like we have never experienced.

Maybe time for each of us to do a serious

spiritual check-up? 

How humble and obedient are we willing to be?