Dont give up

If ever you think of giving up, I want you to consider what I am about to tell you. Over the last few weeks, a friend of mine has been battling cancer. It is a monster for sure, and those who have had it or know someone who did or has will attest to this fact.  Cancer is a beast with one mission, destroy and kill. In fact, it has the same mandate as our enemy, Satan.  He seeks out whom he may devour; seeking to destroy and kill. 

Corrine has been in the hospital, confused and weak.  Each day her husband and family go seeking hope.  Just this week, things took a turn for the worse.  She went from being awake and confused to being in a state of unresponsiveness. Her lungs began filling with fluid and she has been diagnosed with pneumonia.  The doctors in their great wisdom told the family that she will die.  They took her off any treatment they were administering and decided that palliative care was all they could offer to this woman.  That was four days ago.

Each night, they predict as the last one she will be with us. They determined time of death in advance, and even went as far as writing DNR (do not resuscitate) in her file, without family consent. The hospital, worked together on the plan of immediate death.  One doctor said after the first night, it would be “long” if she lived past the day. She did. So they said it will be a miracle for a third. It was. Here we are, at day five.  She opened her eyes.  She held the hands of her sister in law, squeezing in response to the conversation, she kissed the hand she held and brought it to her heart as a sign of her own “I love you”.  This is the girl that they said would die on Monday, not knowing that Friday was coming. Didn’t they crucify Jesus and didn’t see the third day coming? He rose. She opened her eyes.

Beloved, this testimony is not to bash the medical profession; Not at all. It is to let you know that as man, we are not all knowing. We do not have the capacity to see beyond a limited scope. Our humanity makes us frail and weak when compared to God.  I want you to know that God has the final say on every thing in our lives, especially life and death.  It is time to believe what He says, and stop reacting to every wind that blows and eating every word from man as the final truth and end.  God is real. It is a miracle that Corrine is still alive and even the doctors would have to agree. After all, they themselves said it had to be so. And so we thank God for the small sign, liken to the small cloud that was seen before a river load of rain burst from the sky. 

Let us therefore hold on to the hope that we have in Christ.  Let us hold on to God with every fiber in our being. Let us give him our best and worst days; our trials and our victories; our every care and concern.  God is able to exceed our expectations.  Trust in Him.