But to keep him from becoming conceited, God allowed a thorn in his flesh. We don’t know exactly what this thorn was, but it was something adversarial. Did Paul have an illness? Was it his singleness? Was it blindness? Was it somebody dogging him the whole time? Theologians debate exactly what it was. But what we know for sure is God allowed it to be there.
God doesnt cause us hardship but he does allow it at times and wants us to draw closer to him!!
