Best Friend - Stricken with Cancer

I stopped breathing when I was told the worst news I have heard since my young brother passed away in 1981.

I could not believe what I heard. And at the moment I still cannot accept the prognosis of her disease. And somewhere at the back of my mind, I wish God would just take my unbelief, my fear and my shock away and grant her a miracle. I am like Jonah, not willing to go any where uncomfortable, out of my comfort zone.

I started a mental war to adjust my mind to this change and decided to use this blog to journal my feelings. At this point of time, I am not ready to lose my best friend.

In another post, I will tell you what is a best friend.

This is my early morning reading which I can share with you. Read on. Have a good day.


1 Corinthians 15:35-57 (NRSV)

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body
do they come?" Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it
dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be,
but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God
gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own
body. Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings,
another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There
are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the
heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. There is
one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory
of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is
perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it
is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It
is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a
physical body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written,
"The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a
life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the
physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a
man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so
are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are
those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of
dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.

What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die,
but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body
must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on
immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and
this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written
will be fulfilled:
"Death has been swallowed up in victory."
"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks
be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is
sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is
raised in power.
- 1 Corinthians 15:42-43 (NIV)
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APrayer: God, help us not be afraid of death but to trust in the
promise of eternal life in Jesus Christ. Amen.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God gives us life - now and eternally.

-- Mildred K. Butterfield (Oklahoma, U.S.A.)