When God Allows the Thorn to Remain

In 2 Corinthians 12:7b-10, the apostle Paul describes an affliction he calls a “thorn in the flesh.”

We don’t know the precise nature of his thorn, except that it likely wasn’t a literal thorn. Biblical commentators have suggested that his personal scourge may have been a struggle with epilepsy or some other physical ailment. Others have proposed that it…