There is no new news on my cancer situation, still waiting for a December 30 appointment to see where we are now and for 2012. Prayers are appreciated. All Things for Good is a book by the Puritan, Thomas Watson. The book is based on Romans 8:28,29 and here is a section that was a blessing to me.
“Job was a spectacle of misery; he lost all that he ever had; he abounded only in boils and ulcers. This was sad; but it was brought about for his good, his grace was proved and improved. God gave a testimony from heaven of Job’s integrity, and compensated his loss by giving him twice as much as he had before (Job 21:10). Paul was afflicted with blindness at his conversion. This was uncomfortable, but it turned to his good. By that blindness God made a way for the light of grace to shine into his soul; it was the beginning of a happy conversion (Acts 9:6). As the hard frosts in winter bring on the flowers in the spring, and as the night ushers in the morning-star, so the evils of affliction produce much good to those who love God…A sick-bed often teaches more than a sermon. We can best see the form of our own sin in the mirror of affliction. Affliction teaches us to know ourselves. In prosperity we are for the most part strangers to ourselves.”
I have to say “Amen” to that. God has so richly blessed us in and through my cancer. I’m more familiar with myself these days – and more familiar with Christ and His gospel of grace.
