The Big "C"

Cancer. I hate it. It is sneaky, conniving, and it destroys life. I think by now, the year 2009, everyone must have been touched in some way or another by its effects. When I hear the word, I immediately think of the first part John 10:10 which says that the theif comes only to steal and kill and destroy. Cancer is a disease that steals from the body it infests, with the ultimate purpose of killing its host and in the process destroying the hosts life. Personally, the lives I've seen the disease take are far too numerous for my thirty years. Both of Matt's grandmother's have lost battles to different types of the disease. Many times, cancer accomplishes its purpose and does steal life, kill and even destroy the life sometimes. There is no known cure for any type of cancer and until the day when medicine is advanced enough to find a cure, it will continue to act like the thief in John 10:10. The eternally good news comes in the second part of that verse, however. In the second half, Jesus says, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." Life with Jesus is the one and only cure to all things of the world. No matter how long or how short our time on earth is, without Jesus, it has been wasted. The thief has accomplished his purpose if your life was wasted and never lived to the fullest with Jesus. My plea to you today is that if you have never given your life to Jesus, if you do not believe that Jesus is God's only Son, born to the Virgen Mary, and that He died on a cross for your personal sins and then rose again from the dead and then went to be with His father in heaven, where He remains now, consider your eternal future. 1 John 5:11-12 says, "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." The real truth is that every minute, every hour, every day that you do not have Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, the thief (Satan) is robbing you of your life. There is an old hymn that I love called "I Need Thee Every Hour." I love it because the truth is, although over 10 years ago, I gave my life to Jesus, I still need him every single minute, every single hour of every single day. The thief (the devil) does not just mess around with those that do not know Jesus, he comes at those of us, who in Christ are his enemies (1 Peter 5:8), like a roaring lion, looking to kill, scripture says.

Some of those I've seen lose their battle to cancer, praise the Lord, are now walking streets of gold with Jesus. Others, I unfortunately know, did not ever give their lives to Jesus and therefore will not share eternity with him. I believe honestly that one day there will be a cure for cancer. God created man in his image and He (God) has given man the capacity to accomplish great things. I believe that man will advance medicine to the point past his own good, actually, and quite possibly may have already done so. But what I pray for even more than a cure for the disease called cancer, is that one day all will know Him (Jesus) as their Savior.

Please pray today for a good friend of mine named Beth in Wabash, Indiana as she struggles to battle the ugly cancer that has tried to destroy her body and rob her of life for almost two years now. Thankfully, she has been sealed forever with Christ (Ephesians 1:13) and has lived abundant life with Him. When God calls her Home, she will be with Jesus forever. Please pray as the battle rages in her body and she fights it in the hospital.