USING THE WRONG TOOL..

Today was a very busy day. I got up, made homemade gluten-free banana/ choc. chip bread for breakfast, ran 6 miles with my friends, Beth and Cathy.  Then, I stopped at Pikes to buy lettuce, herbs, and other safe-food for the turtles.  Next, I planted all of that inside the turtle enclosure. Then, I spent 2-3 hours wrapping twine around the fencing to close any possible escape routes.  Next, since the children had been begging to go to the pool, I took them to the pool.  Of course there was lunch, lunch clean up, grocery shopping etc.  I tell you all of that so you can see how tired I am ..and ... perhaps I am tired and not crazy... I had to go back to the store because I ran out of twine. Once I  had purchased the twine, I went to unlock the car...and the remote would not work.  I tried over and over to unlock Russell's car!  Finally ..about 1/2 minute later, I realized I was using my car remote.  Of course this would never work on his car...no matter how many times or in how many ways I tried.  Instantly I thought of how people try different tools to heal themselves.  ...these tools never work.  The only tool that heals is God's word and prayer.  People often use food to heal...drugs to heal.....alcohol to heal...sex to heal.....or pick any other addiction... it never works.  It is simply the wrong tool!
2 Timothy 13:
 ¹⁰ You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. ¹² In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, ¹³ while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, ¹⁵ and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God^[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.