Sunday, December 12, 2010

Don't Waste Your Cancer

A dear friend of mine recently sent me an email message with the text from another cancer blog. It is titled, "Don't Waste Your Cancer" and I couldn't agree with it more. I wanted to re-post it here as the message is so good. Not all of us will have to personally fight cancer but we will ALL have trials of our own. As you read, I ask you to replace the word "cancer" with the personal trial you have or are now facing.

I had a friend of mine die a few months ago from cancer... his wife posted this the other day and I just had to share it with you...

1. You will waste your cancer if you do not believe it is designed for you by God.


2. You will waste your cancer if you believe it is a curse and not a gift.


3. You will waste your cancer if you seek comfort from your odds rather than from God.


4. You will waste your cancer if you refuse to think about death.


5. You will waste your cancer if you think that "beating" cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing Christ.


6. You will waste your cancer if you spend too much time reading about cancer and not enough time reading about God.


7. You will waste your cancer if you let it drive you into solitude instead of deepen your relationships with manifest affection.


8. You will waste your cancer if you grieve as those who have no hope.


9. You will waste your cancer if you treat sin as casually as before.


10. You will waste your cancer if you fail to use it as a means of witness to the truth and glory of Christ.



Powerful insight. I believe this life is less about living as long as we can and more about learning to follow God's will for us. I know He loves each one of His children. We are His children. He can make more of the years we have in this life than we can. I believe it is through our trials that we grow to be like Him and overcome those things that hold us back from true happiness. I look back to my time with cancer as a positive experience because I didn't waste it. I have had a good life. A hard life, but a good life. Let us not waste our trials...