Cancer and Christ
Now that I’m done with chemotherapy I’ll say that I’ve thought a lot over the last 6 months about why I have cancer. Atheists would say that stuff just happens, Prosperity preachers would say I didn’t have enough faith and didn’t speak words of healing over myself. Confucius would say bad stuff happens to good people. Ok, maybe not. I think that ultimately, I don’t know and won’t know. I could just say God wanted me to have cancer, I was predestined to have cancer, but what is that really saying? Maybe he wanted me to have more empathy for my wife who has had 5 c-sections (I had a colon sectional). I don’t really know, but what I do know is that if chemotherapy works, it is because God made it work. Just like the advil in the medicine cabinet. Jesus overcame sickness, disease, ultimately death, but he didn’t do it so prosperity preachers could twist Isaiah 53:5 -
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Note then 1 Peter 2:24 -
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Contextually, it’s sin that Jesus healed us from, so ultimately, disease may take our fleshly body, but in Christ we are healed eternally. Praise God that through Christ Jesus we are made righteous and can stand before God and say “Jesus saved me, he paid my penalty.”
Increasing in Him,
Paul
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