When disease strikes - Part 1
There's nothing more disheartening than receiving the news that you have an incurable disease. The first reaction is denial. In your head, you might be asking yourself:" How could this be? Could the doctors be wrong? Could I have been misdiagnosed? All these types of questions come through your mind when all of a sudden, your humanity hits you and you start feeling down, depressed and anxious. It reminds me of the words of Sons of Korah in Psalm 42: "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation." (V.5). It's easier said than done right? You see, the Word of God doesn't deny your humanity. As a matter of fact it affirms it. Look at Jesus himself dying on a cross for you and me. Look a Job, when God allowed Satan to strike him with disease, financial and family loss. Look at Paul with his thorn in the flesh and later on died by being beheaded. And there are many, many more that...