Don,
Thanks for putting the prayer request out there. I will most certainly pray for you both as you go through this difficult time- I cannot even imagine the emotional and spiritual pain you are experiencing.
But the most important thing to realize is that no matter what kind of treatments she takes, even if she lives a long, happy life to 100… she will die someday.
All of us have an appointment with death, and all the treatments the world has to offer can only delay that appointment. Your wife’s situation simply means that her appointment is probably sooner than yours or mine.
But I don’t know that. In a few hours, I plan on risking my life by stepping into a vehicle and moving down the street at high velocities, with other drivers just a short distance away from me doing the exact same thing.
My friend, I could be leaving this world sooner than your wife will.
And you know why that does not scare me AT ALL?
Because I am certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, where I am going to spend eternity.
The reason is because “God so loved so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
You see, GOD loved you and me enough to humble Himself and be born in a human body.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. - Philippians 2:5-8
God was manifest in the flesh- 1 Timothy 3:16
God loved us enough to come to earth in a human body. He lived a perfect, sinless life- a life that only God could live. He healed many people of earthly ailments. But His main purpose when He came was not to heal or set up a kingdom. His purpose was to die to make a way of forgiveness. Salvation!
He was accused of blasphemy (claiming to be God)… But He was not a blasphemer, because He was God.
He died a slow, painful death on the cross, on a hill called Calvary.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?- Matthew 27:46
God the Father turned His back to God the Son as He bore our sins in his own body on the tree.
…he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Jesus Christ finished it on the cross! And three days and three nights later, he ROSE FROM THE DEAD- Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Jesus freely offers to every person everlasting life and salvation from Hell. There are no works that man can offer to God for salvation. This is what sets Christianity apart from religion… Religion is men trying to get to God. Christianity is God condescending to man!
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. -Ephesians 2:8-9
In Acts chapter 16, a suicidal man asked the most important question a lost man could ask…
Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. -Acts 16:30-31
It’s that simple. God’s righteousness to your account. Jesus paid the cost to forgive your sins- will you receive His offer of forgiveness and salvation?
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. - Jesus Christ in John 5:24
I cannot say for certain whether or not God will choose to heal your wife of physical ailments. But I’ll tell you what’s infinitely better than being healed of earthly troubles- being saved from everlasting Hell and going to Heaven!
Below is what I consider the greatest lesson segment on the site… yes, even better than banjo utility rolls and Peaches & Cream harmony…
https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/there-is-a-fountain-guitar-intermediate/video/what-is-the-fountain
May God richly bless you, Don.
-Michael
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