I Got Cancer

     You’d think this toppled tree is dead.  But look above me - a green canopy nourished by a massive root system. I’m particularly aware of my need for a deep root system these days since I got toppled by a diagnosis of cancer.
     Prognosis? No treatment plan can guarantee my physical healing But I have a hundred percent guarantee of being well spiritually if I draw upon a healthy root system instead of listening to that old root killer “fear.” I’m going to die some day anyway - maybe from cancer, maybe from something else. Why fret?
     So I’m pursuing the medical treatment that seems best for my situation, and it’s helping. But I’m also heeding the advice of cancer survivor John Piper who said, “We waste our cancer if we think that ‘beating’ cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing Christ.”
     Why is that? Because not only is Jesus the one who sustains me in the present, he is the door keeper to my future. After all, he nicknamed himself The Way. For those who follow him, death is the passport from this marred world into the perfect world God always intended for us.     So I’m sinking my roots into the eternal soil of God to draw up nourishment.
     That’s a great way to live - and to die.
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