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The common cold has no cure.  Doesn’t matter what adverts tell us, there is nothing that will remove the virus from our systems.  Oh, symptoms may be treated, but they won’t disappear.  No matter how hard we work at it.

I remember a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Granny Clampett had a cure for the common cold. They were going to be even richer than before once the cure was bottled, marketed and sold. Until it was discovered that her “cure” took the same week to ten days any treatment takes.

Wikipedia told me that:

There is no cure for the common cold but the symptoms can be treated. It is the most frequent infectious disease in humans with the average adult contracting two to three colds a year and the average child contracting between six and twelve. These infections have been with humanity since antiquity.

Wikipedia Commons has a graphic representation:

that doesn’t do it justice at all.  That could be described as a flowered soccer ball, nothing similar to the swollen tissues emitting fluids that result from its invasion of our bodies. Of course, no one has seen one of these invaders.  Our microscopes lack sufficient power.

We do see the results.  Right now I see it in the mirror.  Beloved Husband shared.  We’ve seen the results in him since early last week. Now that he’s better, the invaders have moved into my space.  I don’t like that, at all.

It does remind me of a Bible verse:

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (Matthew 7:20 KJV)

I  don’t gather fruit from plants.  I pick them up at the local grocery, but I can certainly tell an apple from an orange; a cantaloupe from a watermelon; a lemon from a lime. I won’t get the sweetness of a grape from a grape tomato, no matter why it was named thus.

I am not going to get a sunny, sweet disposition from a rhinovirus, either!  I am, and will be for a while, miserable. I will not be judged as well, though the battle is raging.

It’s sort of similar to becoming a Christian:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)

The newness is real, but the results of sin take a while to disappear.

Some call it hypocrisy when they see remnants of sin clinging to a Christian’s life. Please, remember that while God is perfection, we are human and a work in progress, being refined and remolded.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 KJV)