When God Gives Thorns

What if this is how our bandwidth for grace expands?

In 2 Corinthians 12, 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 coul…