Recently, I had another friend of mine receive a daignosis of cancer. 2 years ago, one friend was daignosed with Adrenal Cortal Carcinoma. Now, another friend has been diagnosed with Leukemia. There is nothing someone can do to you to make you wish cancer upon them. I know out of all the people I don't like in this world, I still would not wish cancer upon them. I don't think anyone deserves it, and it really shows you that it does happen. Watching your friends go through that is something that really wakes you up. The only problem I've ever had with hearing something like this:
Why?
Why that person? Why someone so nice? Why someone who has their whole life ahead of them? (Not saying old people should have it either) Why a person who doesn't do bad things on purpose? This is a struggle. It really makes people question God, and why He would let something happen to someone so innocent. I can only really think of one thing, and it's not really an answer
In the Bible, there's the book of Job. Job was a righteous man by most accounts, and he was faithful to God. The Devil came to God. He had been roaming the land just looking for someone to trip up. God asked the Devil, "Have you considered my servant, Job? There is no one on Earth like him. He is upright and blameless. A man who fears God and shuns evil." From this passage, you can see that God knows and loves Job, but yet still will allow something to happen to him. Satan says to God, "But now, stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse your face" God allowed Satan to destroy all he had, but not to touch the man himself. Satan took everything. Took his seven sons, and three daughters, and killed them. Burned all 700 of his sheep, all 500 donkeys, all 500 yoke of oxen, and all three thousand camels. He lost everything. Thing is, He still praised God. He didn't accuse God of doing anything wrong. With his words, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. May the name of the Lord be praised." In all that had happened to him, most men would have turned a quick shot to say the Lord was cursing them, but yet Job still praised God. As hard as it is, I want to say that we should praise God for who He is.
Satan has attacked these two young people, but God will heal them. The hardest thing to do right now is to trust that fact. Trusting that God will heal these two people, trusting that He has His reasons for allowing this to happen. We can't do much. We can't do anything to fix them. No matter how hard we try, nothing we do will make them become cancer free. We can only pray and trust that God will fulfill His promises to be the healer. It's hard to trust Him as it is, but now it's even harder. I'm sure there are people right now who are questioning why God would let this happen to such a great person, but we can't make it God's fault, because it's not. We must be ever praising to Him, and know that He is still there, working on it. He is in control and He will make it better.
It breaks my heart to know a good friend of mine is going through this. Like I said, no one deserves this. My heart goes out to the family of these people. I understand being a friend to these people, but I can't imagine what it's like to have your sister, daughter, cousin, niece, or whatever other relation, go through this. I can't imagine how hard it's gotta be.
I can only pray and trust in the Lord's plan. He knows what's going on. He has already seen the outcome. We must trust that He is in control.
I also wanted to post a song on here, but seeing as I'm at school I can't really post it. I will post it later, but if you read before I do, the song is called Death Has Died by Andy Mineo.
That's it
Love you guys
TJ
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