This is a powerful word from a young man that has now finished his race:
(HT: JD)
Cancer sucks, but Christ is better.
If you’d prefer to read that statement in the words of a Puritan, then check out this from Samuel Rutherford:
“It is your part now to believe, and suffer, and hope, and wait on: for I protest in the presence of that all-discerning eye who knoweth what I write and what I think, that I would not want the sweet experience of the consolations of God for all the bitterness of affliction; nay, whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well.
Welcome, welcome Jesus, what way soever thou come, if we can get a sight of thee. And sure I am, it is better to be sick, providing Christ come to the bed-side, and draw aside the curtains, and say ‘Courage, I am thy salvation’ than to enjoy health, being lusty and strong, and never visited by God.” (From the Letters of Rutherford)
That quote has encouraged me numerous times in my walk with Christ. Would you be willing to say “welcome, welcome Jesus, what way soever thou come”? Even if it means cancer?
I’m praying for, and sharing the gospel with, a couple in our community that has been ravaged by cancer. I’m praying that the Lord would give them eyes to see and a heart to believe that cancer sucks, but Christ is better.
