October 9, 2024 - Hope

     I have been mulling over this theme in my mind for 5-6 days, but for some reason I felt the nudge of the Holy Spirit to write it today.  It may be time sensitive for some reason or some person.
     Last week I met with my local oncologist who oversees the treatment plan from Mayo.  This doctor is a believer and has seen the blessings that I have experienced from the hand of God in the past 18 months.
     Like I do, he attributes my healing to the combination of thermotherapy and the power of God.
     I shared with him that I have somehow become a source of hope for other multiple myeloma patients, as well as other cancer patients.  I think that is one of the reasons the Lord encouraged me to write these blogs, though I had no thought of that happening.
     It wasn’t long before our conversation shifted to our “blessed hope” that is found in Christ Jesus.  My doc said something that has stuck in my mind since our conversation.   He said, “In 50 years all the patients who have myeloma right now will have died.  Healing in this life won’t really matter then.”
     He is right.  Though I may be a source of hope for people who are dealing with myeloma or some other illness now, I ought to be a source of a greater hope for what ultimately matters—spending eternity with Jesus through resurrection healing.
     Every follower of Jesus ought to be a source of that hope for others.
     More than once in these blogs I have shared Paul’s great words of hope, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
     That is our hope.   Physical healing is a marvelous blessing.  I enjoy living in this world.  But our time in this world is not even a blink of an eye in the next life.