"It's hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death,' or 'Death doesn't matter,'" wrote C. S. Lewis. "Cancer, and cancer, and cancer. My mother, my father, my wife. I wonder who is next in the queue?" (A Grief Observed)
"How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?" complained the prophet Habakkuk about the collapse of justice in society. God's answer fits all problems, cancer too. "The righteous will live by faith" (2:4). That is, hang onto God's promises. They’ll be proven true in Jesus, God’s “Yes” to overpower present problems.
Hanging onto God's promises, sometimes against the evidence, produces hope, not just hope that cancer will be cured and one day eliminated, but hope confident in resurrection. "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26).
"Hope does not disappoint, because God has poured His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit" (Romans 5:5).
Are you or a friend standing in that queue? God stands in line with you. "Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God" (Psalm 43:5).
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