My quest for optimal health for me and the people I work with has brought me more and more into the realm of root cause medicine as well as avoiding just treating symptoms. Much of the medical field is about treating a symptom.
I am pretty sure my auto mechanic brother wouldn’t appreciate me putting a band-aid over my oil light warning. But that’s what we do with our health…..mental, physical, spiritual….all of it.
A quick fix to get by repeated too many times adds up to a big problem.
Physically, we can learn root causes of conditions and then treat that cause. Spiritually, we can learn the root cause of our behaviors and deal with them instead of using some temporary fix or quick “hit” of something to push it off to another day.
I love how God’s Word cuts right in and shows you what your root cause is….in any area where you feel lost/weak or hopeless. There are countless places to find the answers in His Word and the Spirit leads us to them,
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Hebrews 4:12 NLT