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June 2009

Inoperable Cancer

6/12/2009

 
Thou shall keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusts in Thee.
Isaiah 26:3


Yesterday I wrote a letter to a friend who told me about a good friend of her and her husband's who has recently been diagnosed with inoperable cancer...
A large tumor was discovered between his lungs and he was given three to six months to live. She asked me for a Scripture to give him. What came to mind was the above verse from the twenty-sixth chapter of the book of Isaiah. I also advised her to make sure her friend truly knows the Lord Jesus, and is "saved." I told her, too, that I often use this verse to encourage my fellow prisoners, and I get encouragement from it, as well. God's word is like a medicine for the soul.

And, in her letter, she also told me about a neighbor who has diabetes. She's already lost most of her sight as a result of this disease, plus most of her toes on both feet. Yet the Bible can be a balm that brings healing and hope through its divinely inspired and God-breathed words.

So as I thought about these two individuals with their dire health issues, I reminded myself to be thankful. Because, for those of us who enjoy good health, we should be glad to have been spared such pain and suffering, at least for now. For good health won't last forever. But if we have it, we should be grateful for it. We should thank the Lord.

D.B.

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