"I'm missing out on being a normal kid. Everyone else gets to just be a kid, but I have to deal with this."
How it sounds in your head: They're playing outside and I'm inside taking medicine. They're at sleepovers and I'm at doctor appointments. They don't have to think about their bodies, they just live. I'm missing the fun parts of being my age, and I'll never get these years back. It's not fair.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust."
-- Joel 2:25Spirit of comparison and victimhood - enemy highlights what's lost to blind him to what's present.
He IS missing activities other kids do easily, and those losses are real and painful. Seeing peers experience freedom he doesn't have makes the injustice feel overwhelming.
Joseph lost ages 17-30 in slavery and prison - his entire young adulthood stolen. God didn't just free him - He made him second in command of Egypt in ONE DAY and gave him such abundance that Joseph named his son 'God has made me forget all my hardship.' Complete restoration INSTANTLY.
I REFUSE the lie that I'm missing out permanently! IT IS WRITTEN: God will RESTORE the years the locust has eaten! What feels stolen now, He's storing up to give back MULTIPLIED! I will receive DOUBLE for my trouble - that's the Father's promise! The BARAK blessing over me means I'm blessed coming in and going out, in the city and in the field - there's NO area of my life outside His abundance! IT IS WRITTEN: No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly! My best days are AHEAD, not behind!
Your Father sees every moment you've missed and He's not saying 'that's too bad' - He's the Father who gives back DOUBLE for every loss, who turns the worst years into setup for the best testimony. He's not watching you miss childhood; He's preparing a youth that outlasts your peers' because His restoration is THAT good.