For all who are afflicted with a 'thorn in the flesh', - a painful and chronic problem.

In this book R T Kendall explains what a thorn in the flesh is, why we have it, and what we should understand by it.

In 2 Corinthians 12:7 Paul makes the extraordinary admission that he was given a 'thorn in the flesh'. Although we can never be sure what that torment was, many of us will know what it feels like to have a thorn in the flesh, a painful problem which does not seem to go away. Looking with compassion at the kinds of acute situation in which we may find ourselves - an unhappy marriage, difficult working conditions, loneliness, sexual misgivings or chronic illness, for example - he shows how the grace of God is sufficient for us whatever our thorn, and how it can lead us into unimaginable intimacy with Jesus.