Christ and Cancer

I was this link to read: http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper80/081780m.htm

The person who sent it to me intended it to nourish and empower me to trust Him in my situation and I am thankful for it.

This link goes to a site called "Piper's Notes" and specifically to a sermon entitled Christ and Cancer (Roman 8:18-28). It is quite long and will need some time to go through and some more effort to try and understand the content of the sermon.

The author provided a summary at the end of the sermon that I will use it as the basis of the blog.

The author stated that "First, in this age all creation, including our bodies, has been subjected to futility and enslaved to corruption."

I personally find this disturbing. I am neither a preacher nor bible teacher and I do believe that our bodies may be corrupt but is it enslaved? Christ died to save and delivered us, therefore, how can our body be enslaved when He came to set us free. If anything, we are enslaved to Christ and I gladly choose to be enslaved to Him.

The author also stated that "Second, there is a new age coming when all those who endure to the end in faith will be set free from all pain and sickness."

You will have to read the sermon to understand the context of this statement. The author himself stated of Paul “yet His grace would be sufficient and His power would be manifest not in healing but in the faithful service of Paul through suffering”. However, do we really need to wait till the end to be set free from all pain and sickness? Again, you will have to read the sermon to understand the context but I believe that God is in control. We may suffer from pain and sickness but we are not bound by it for by grace we are set free and by grace God will sustain us.

I guess a lot may have to do with the way the scriptures are interpreted and how we understand it and how we choose to live it. I choose to live a live knowing the God had set me free and that I am no longer in bondage. Although I may be suffering an illness, I do not need to wait till the end (in heaven) to be released and set free. I am free now because I stand on the Father's grace and mercy.

THEREFORE, In God I Trust.