It cannot cripple Love
It cannot shatter Hope
It cannot corrode Faith
It cannot destroy Peace
It cannot kill Friendship
It cannot suppress Memories
It cannot silence Courage
It cannot invade the Soul
It cannot steal Eternal Life
It cannot conquer the Spirit
-Author Unknown
In fact...Cancer has brought families together in a powerful display of Love, it has given us Hope in people who pulled together to help out, built our Faith in a God that has given our loved ones Peace; Cancer has given us an opportunity to meet new people and reunite old Friendships, it has given a reason to build amazing Memories, and has unleashed indescribable Courage from within to fight and raise awareness of this terrible disease. Cancer is a thorn that has brought our very Souls to the throne of Christ begging for mercy and forgiveness, it has made us painfully aware of the need for Eternal Life and finally Cancer has awakened our Spirits.
Often God gives us an opportunity to get closer to him, however, that opportunity is, many times, hidden in a cloud of rain and thunder.
Psalms 18 10-12 tells us “He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.”
Most people run at the sight of the storm, they take cover in buildings and with friends and family…but it is IN THE MIDST of this very storm that God is coming to save us…verses 13-19 of the same chapter say:
“The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, Lord, at the blast of breath from your nostrils. He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.”
Our brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, parents and children who have been stricken with these terminal illnesses were chosen by our Creator, our Great Physician to carry out a mission here on earth: bring souls to Christ…So many of us have come to Christ on the back of one illness or another. I mourn my family and my friends, my heart is wrenched each time I see them suffer, yet and still I MUST Praise my Lord and Savior Jesus for the opportunity to know Him.
Their disease, our loss is a storm we cannot weather alone; only in the arms of Christ can we wake to see the Joy of the Morning. If only we could get it together, if only we didn’t need a disaster to draw us closer to Christ or even to each other…can you imagine the health and prosperity we could enjoy?
This Wednesday will mark 8 years without my big brother…his heart literally broken by a heart attack…how ironic, his death has been an attack on my heart every day since and every single day I must remember that I still breathe because God has allowed me to survive, that I still Love because God is mending a broken heart in me, that I am NOT ALONE and neither are you.
Won’t you consider your relationship with Christ today? Will you take a moment to go to Him in a prayer of thanksgiving for the eyes it took to read this note or the mind that at this moment may be dismissing your need for Him? Will you recognize that we are More Than Conquerors today and everyday in Christ? Or will he need to send yet another cloud and storm for us to remember that He is God?
