Treatment Can be Worse Than Disease
February 3rd, 2009Remember Mish Today
Please don’t forget about Mish Weiss. She is still fighting the life-threatening side effects of her treatment with Mylotarg. She needs your prayers more than ever.
I got an interesting email from a reader named John. He has been trying to change his life. He says:
Unfortunately, I have trouble improving my personal habits and they are slowing my progress to Christ. I would greatly appreciate it if you would ask your readers to pray that God gives me the grace and strength of will to change.
Consider it done.
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February 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am
My MIL is going through chemo now. The basic premise, stripped of all the medical jargon, is that you put a lot of really heavily toxic poisons into the patient and hope to kill the disease before you kill the patient.
It is, in many ways, little more sophisticated than applying leeches.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 am
John, you are not alone. Strength of will is the area that I am most in struggle against. Keep up the battle – it is worth it.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:11 am
True change is tough, John. A simple example of this is attempting to lose weight. Losing weight is easy if you have the will power. Keeping it off is another matter. I find true and permanent change doesn’t rest in the ‘how’, but in the ‘why’.
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Many times it is a long self discovery that appears to NOT make progress. But how can you measure progress in the unseen? I find that in regards to progress towards Christ, that Love is the key. It makes ALOT of things worthwhile.
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John
February 4th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Years ago, i read a book entitled ‘The normal christian Life” in which the author demonstrates that there is nothing “normal” about the Christian Life. It is supernormal. We are not inherently capable of handling everything thrown at us. “I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me”.
Each time we are faced with a situation, such as wanting to punch someone out, and we realize the inherent wrongness of that response, we ask God to love that person through us, since we seem incapable of it ourselves. I have seen this work. I have felt the anger and bitterness disappear.
It is no Jedi mind trick. It is God living in us. I don’t do it enough. That’s the challenge.
May God give us each the strength to recognize our weakness and rely on Him.
February 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I would like to thank you for your thoughts and prayers.