God often seems to place His children in places of deep difficulty, leading them into a corner from which there is no escape. Your situation is filled with uncertainty and is very serious, but it is perfectly right. The reason behind it will more than justify Him who brought you here, for it is a platform from which God will display His almighty grace and power.
He will not only deliver you but in doing so will impart a lesson that you will never forget.
You could say that my faith has been tested several times over the past 8 weeks with with my optic neuritis, possible MS, possible pseudo tumor, and now possible breast cancer. But God has been faithful to answer my prayers.
I went in for my mammogram recheck this afternoon for a suspicious spot on my left breast....NOT CANCER!!!!! PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!!!!!!
As a child of God I could easily get overwhelmed by the number of afflictions that seem to have targeted me over the past two months. But we should never question the number of trials in our lives. Here is a good analogy for why we shouldn't: the Gardner stops pruning and trimming the vine or weeding the soil only when he expects nothing more from the vine during that season. He leaves it alone, because it's fruitfulness is gone and further effort now would yield no profit. In the same way, freedom from suffering leads to uselessness.
It is only human to want to see before we step out on the promises of God. Yet our Savior said, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" - John 20:29
It is in these places of severe testing, with no human way out of our difficulty, that our faith grows and is strengthened.
Blessings,
Dalinda
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