An update on my situation:
Apologies for nothing new appearing here, but lately all my time has been taken up trying to be at my wife’s side while she spends her final days and hours in a hospital bed. In her latest extended stay in hospital(s) she has been there around 18 days so far. Those days when I am home alone help prepare me for when this will always be the case. So I am being prepared for what is about to come.
Her year and a half-long battle with cancer is now just about over as she prepares to be with her beloved Jesus and to experience those marvellous words found in Revelation 21:4: “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” What an amazing promise!
It has been a long hard battle for her, myself and the family. If you believe in the power of prayer, as we do, and in a God who is too wise to make a mistake, and too loving to be unkind, we would appreciate your prayers for us during this difficult period. I will write up more about all this when it comes to its end point.
I know many other people are going through their own hard struggles as well. But in all these cases, we have a God who is not unfamiliar with suffering nor aloof from it. Jesus is even known as the “Suffering Servant” (Isaiah 53). So God knows exactly what we are going through, and he shares in our world of suffering, just as in a sense we share in his world of suffering.
And this helps us to be of help to others. As Paul said in 2 Corinthians 1:3-7:
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 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. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
Thanks for your prayers and understanding.
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