So...
...for the last year I have been suffering from severe pain in my left achilles tendon. It was so sore all the time and so I stopped running and exercising like I should because the pain was so strong. Well yesterday, I was just waking up and getting ready for church when my back started feeling like it was going out. It felt like it had in the past and like it was locked out of place. I was talking to my wife about it and she was telling me that she believes that my back pain was just TMS (Tension Myositis Syndrome). Or as some people call it TMS...Too Much Stress.
I wouldn't have really believed that it could just be TMS because the pain was so real. But when I started to think about it, I realized that my achilles tendon was not hurting anymore. What!!! How could this be? I told my wife what happened and she said, "yes, it's very weird was the TMS does and how it can manifest itself in different places."
In my current reading about TMS and trying to gain more knowledge about it, I have read that it is a mental mind game where your body is trying to suppress other issues or stressful things. In order to get rid of these pains, it's an intentionality of telling your mind that you are fine and that you will be ok. It's putting your mind onto thoughts other than the pain. When I was reading this, it reminded me of the scripture passage found in 2 Corinthians 10. In verse 5 it says, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ."
I pray that I can learn to take EVERY THOUGHT captive and make it obedient to the Word of God. Take every thought and if it does not honor the Lord or goes against the Word, I can quickly push it out of my thinking. I know that we have an enemy that is trying to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10), so I want to be as fully prepared to take a stand and fight against his lies with the Word of Truth.
Maybe you are struggling today with TMS or with wavering thoughts. My prayer for you is that you would seek the Lord with your whole heart and let Him speak truth into your life and bring you the peace that your soul and mind so long for.
