Scripture tells us to find joy in all things. Sometimes I think some of us may take this to an extreme. I have a friend who told me years ago that if you have a headache, give praise for that and have joy. Somehow I don’t find myself thinking the same way. I often pray that the headache will cease! However I will confess that for me cancer was not a totally bad thing. The thing about limited time and certain death helped bring me to where I needed to be. I needed to continue to grow to get to know the Lord and be certain in my salvation. I needed to trust in Him in the certainty of my days and where my eternity would be.
We can find grace in all situations. That I am certain of. We don’t have to be joyful over a headache or a cancer diagnosis, but we do need to know where our strength comes from and the certainty that we are not forgotten. We are children of the living God. We were created in His image. He is holy. We are not. He provided a way for us to spend eternity with Him. We can choose to believe Him and seek Christ and trust in Christ or we can choose hell. It’s really that simple. Choose life.