Running The Race

I could tell you about the flash flooding we had this afternoon and that while I was running on the treadmill at the Y folks had to move their cars because the parking lot was flooding. But all that really doesn’t matter in the larger scheme of things.

You see my friend Jim was back at work today. It was the first time I got to talk with him since he was told the day after Christmas that he has stage 4 cancer. Jim’s first words to me was, “God, is Good.” Jim is 43 and has 5 children, the oldest a senior in high school.

Jim told me he felt fine and how strange it seemed knowing that he only had some 24 months ahead of him rather than 24 years.

I know others who have had friends that have dealt with cancer before, and one of my sisters is a survivor, but Jim has been told that his prognosis is not good and at best his time is limited. Knowing this, Jim said, “God is good”.

God has allowed Jim time for closure. Time to demonstrate his faith in an all sufficient God. A faith that is more than words but lived out in the ultimate reality of life.

Pray for Jim. Pray for his family. Pray that Jim may be healed, if it is God’s will. But in the end, pray that all of us who know Jim can say, “God is Good.”

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