Life is full of challenges. Some of these challenges we enjoy while others we dread and wish had never happened. I still remember the anguish in my son Zach’s voice while he was fighting terminal cancer. He looked at me and said out of frustration, “I just want to go back to normal.” Don’t we all in times like that. It’s at those moments that we appreciate our “boring” lives because that means nothing bad at least is happening.
It is the trying times that help us to grow. That’s often what I think we miss. Many things in this life we have no control over. Zach’s was a rare cancer that he had no control over. Mine I could argue was self imposed with poor eating habits. I was much older. I lived a life on sugar and still battle it to this day. We are all aware of cancers that are tied in to smoking, alcohol, etc. Still a lot of what comes our way, we never saw coming and felt helpless against. To be an overcomer is to face those challenges with the attitude that we can do all things through Christ. Absolutely true. We can face what we must face and do what we must do. What a joy to have such a strength because of the presence and mercy of the Holy Spirit.