How do we cope or how do we handle difficult issues and major circumstances that come our way? While at the cancer clinic this morning and looking at the throng of people, both men and women who were there for check-ups, I could not imagine what each of them were thinking or what might be in their future. Some seem to be smiling and others were not and seemed to be in deep depression. My wife was there for her regular check-up and all seemed to be all right for her. A kind lady there in the waiting room gave me a copy of a testimony written by a gentleman in Texas who faced a major hurdle in his life and how that trauma changed his life forever. These are his words.
The lives we live are full of suprises. I started off as a popular athletic kid. I spent the majority of my young life trying to impress others with what i was doing, what i had done, or my material possessions. Much of my time was spent trying to promote ME. Doing so, I failed to recognize that all of the things that i was able to accomplish and experience were only possible of because of the grace of God. I would try to blame God for all the bad things that happened to me. Strange philosophy there--i was responsible for the good things, God for the bad.
A few years back, God had grown weary of my constant wandering. He put me through a great adventure to bring me back permanently to the fold. This adventure is frowned upon by many, but to me, the adventure saved my spiritual life. The adventure is medically known as Squamous Cell Carcinoma. In my case, the cancer was in the left maxillary cavity. When it was found, it had spread to the dangerous level. God planned it that way, to bring me to my knees, at the foot of the cross.

As I read through parts of the written testimomies of he and his wife along with all the various stages of surgeries and uncertainties they faced, needless to say I was touched. To have a cancer the size of a baseball inside your head and eventually having to have a eye removed and all the prolonged treatments at various major hospitals, I wondered how I would handle a situation like this family did. Would my faith be strong enough to endure all this. I hope and pray that I would never have to face that in my life. Sitting there I recalled the struggles that Job had and wondered how he remained true to God. When we are put to the test, will we truly place everything in God's hands?

"Don't tell God about the size of the storm in your life.
Tell the storm in your life the size of your God."

In 2nd Cor. we read,
who comforts us in all our troubles,
so that we can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves
have received from God.