A long-time friend is struggling with cancer. Her husband writes, "viewed from God's perspective, it is an opportunity to have Him draw us closer to Him. He is allowing a time of testing. He does not desire bad from this testing." Those are healthy words, alive with hope.
When I was working my way through school by delivering milk, an old co-worker told me this story about hope.
In those days of home delivery, if you could have asked the lady of the house where she was going in the darkness of the early morning, she would have said, "To the front door to bring in the milk."
When you ask, "How do you know that it's here?" she replies simply, "I just know it's there."
"Did you hear the milk truck or the bottles clanging?"
"No, I just know it's there!" She brushes past you, opens the door, puts her hand out into the darkness and...sure enough...the milk bottles are there.
That's hope. For my friends with cancer, for you, reach confidently into the darkness because God's word has promised you good. "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God" (Psalm 43:5).
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