session 5 biblical perspective

Session 5 Biblical Perspective
Read the following testimony that relates to a disease involving the endocrine system and then reflect on the two questions provided. Write up a 1-page response to the reflection questions in Microsoft Word. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions – it is an activity to challenge you to think about how a biblical perspective impacts concepts and ideas we have been covering in this session. You will receive all of the points for this assignment when you submit your response to the reflection questions.
Diabetes Testimony

I believe that, while in no way shape or form do I blame God for my condition, He has used it for me to step up to the plate, and take a direction in my life. Because of it, I have chosen to study nutrition, so that someday I might help other people in the same place as myself.
It is hard to not notice His hand in my diabetes, when I have come so close to losing consciousness, and have not. I really start to pray when it gets down to the wire. In eight years it has only been twice that I have gone down. I believe that it was because I ignored what God was trying to tell me. Even in those incidences, I was only out for a few minutes, and was able to avoid going to the hospital. Being without insurance, I could not have afforded it.
They have been talking about dying in bed, quite a bit on the LeHigh Diabetes Discussion list as of late. It scares me a little. I recognize that I’m starting to lose some of the warning signs of hypoglycemia. One thing that I have tried to do over the time that I have been diabetic is to ask myself questions such as am I high or low. Am I sweaty because I’m low? Or is the environment just hot?, and so on and so forth. In my head I answer these questions. It’s a system that has always worked for me.
Well one night, I woke to hearing my name being called. It was my voice but, It did not sound like it was in my head. I wanted to go back to sleep. But every time I went to lay my head down and go to sleep, I would hear this “Mary wake up” I’d check to see if my hand was shaking and it was very light if at all. I finally grabbed the graham crackers and put them in my mouth as the low started to really hit. Unfortunately, I do not check my blood sugars when I’m like that. But I’m not sure that I would be writing this today, to you, if God had not intervened.
I’ve also been on the bus, and questioned whether I was low or not. And you’re not supposed to eat on the bus, and I do try to follow the rules, so I really don’t like to stick life savers in my mouth to get me back up. But in the back of my mind there is this voice that keeps telling me that I’m low. One time that I can remember specifically, I got off the bus, and as I was finishing off the life saver package, was praying that God would get me home, because I was going down for the count. God is Good, because sure enough I made it. I really believe that little small voice, is His way of warning and keeping me healthy.
Reflection Questions
Mary mentioned two early and noticeable warning signs of hypoglycemia (being sweaty and a shaking hand). Explain why Mary was so grateful that God had intervened early when her blood sugar was low, i.e., what could have happened to Mary if her blood sugar continued to fall and God had not intervened when He did? Explain the pathophysiology of a low blood sugar on body functioning when responding to this question.
Reflect on how the following verses could give Mary comfort as she learns how to manage her diabetes for the rest of her life:
Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

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