"This diabetes is my thorn in the flesh, like Paul's weakness."
How it sounds in your head: Paul was a giant of faith and even he had a permanent affliction. Who am I to expect better? Maybe God keeps me sick to keep me humble. Three times I've prayed and it's still here—just like Paul.
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree')."
-- Galatians 3:13Religion misinterprets 2 Corinthians 12 as license for permanent sickness despite zero evidence Paul's thorn was physical.
You've prayed repeatedly with no change, and the 'thorn' doctrine gives theological permission to stop fighting. Your medications are daily reminders, and accepting it as 'God's will' feels more spiritual than admitting disappointment with unanswered prayer.
Terminally ill, told by the prophet to set his house in order because death was certain. He prayed ONE prayer and God IMMEDIATELY answered: 'I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. And I will add to your days fifteen years.' Instant reversal of death sentence.
I REFUSE the lie that Jesus redeemed me from the curse but left diabetes as my sanctified thorn. IT IS WRITTEN that Christ became a curse so I'd receive Abraham's blessing—and Abraham's blessing includes health, not managed disease. Paul's thorn was demonic opposition, not medical condition. This sickness is FROM the curse Jesus carried, not FROM the Father's design. I am the righteousness of God in Christ, and disease has no covenant right to my body. IT IS WRITTEN that He sent His word and healed them. I receive that word NOW.
Your Father didn't redeem you from the curse of Deuteronomy 28 only to assign you verse 22's wasting disease as a merit badge. He's running toward you with the BARAK blessing that includes 'the LORD will take away from you all sickness' (Deut 7:15)—because you're in BETTER covenant.