Living with Them!
There is much emphasis today being put on people that they can live with their disability, and this may true to a point? But when it comes to the reality of illness, that is a far different matter, pain being a real problem, one has to suffer from it to understand that all want rid of it!
Job is perhaps the best example from the Bible in relation to one suffering and in pain and showing to us that many people would give up and die, after being struck down, but he did not since he had done nothing wrong, while everyone thought he had failed God in some way to be in this terrible suffering?
Neither are to be seen as a blessing, but rather that we need to seek God that we can be healed of them and set free to serve, today, to share Jesus with the decaying world around us!
Book of Job, Job 2:13, Psalm 38:17, Ecclesiastes 11:10, Matthew 8:6, Romans 5:3, James 5:7, Revelation 21:4.