Lyme Disease

When my daughter was 3, she begin to have random symptoms such as mild fever and fatigue that we begin to treat but these symptoms persisted so we took her to the doctor and she was diagnosed with Lyme disease.  Lyme disease starts out with a tick bite.  It first shows up as symptoms of fatigue, fever, headaches, and a skin rash.  When someone is diagnosed with the disease, they are automatically put on antibiotics to bring the body to complete health.  This stops the spread of the disease by eradicating the infestation from the body. One could treat the symptoms of the disease instead of treating the disease: cream for the rash, Tylenol for the fever and headaches, and caffeine and B vitamins for the fatigue.  However with only treating the symptoms, we are only getting rid of the manifest issue instead of treating the root problem.  Left untreated, the root problem will slowly get worse to the point of disabling the person, and in some cases, resulting in death.  So it is no surprise that when someone has Lyme disease that they treat the root of the problem, and not just the symptoms.  Even though the antibiotics can make you sick, have long term effects, and cost more than Tylenol and cream; antibiotics are still preferred because they will potentially save the life of the infected person.  So if this is the case with our physical lives, then why do we not do that with our spiritual lives?  Most Christians and Christian churches just want to treat the symptoms and not the root problem.  Why?  Usually because it is too painful, it costs too much, it takes too much effort, and we do not want to deal with whatever else may happen when we uncover the core issue.  That is why we have churches full of people that are weak Christians and have a watered down gospel.  They will not teach the truth that will change someone’s life because they are afraid they will offend someone or their attendance will go down.  Christians are the best at coveing up their hurts, pains, sins, and issues.  Todays Christians give themselves more over to serving satan every day but they sure as heck look and sound good while doing it.  And we wonder why the world is going to hell.  It is because we have treated the symptoms while the whole time we are destroying ourselves and those around us.