Before we went to Mayo last week, a friend called and said she was going to drop off something for Julie, but we could never connect. In the morning before we left, we discovered a bag taped to our van. The note inside was soaking wet from the previous night’s rain, but the pendant was fine. However, we couldn’t figure out what the pendant was. We tossed out ideas all day about what it could be: a man and a woman dancing, a horse, a dog, a fun design, but we couldn’t figure it out.
When we got to Mayo , the doctor kept talking about how my form of lymphoma is more like a marathon than a sprint. There is no cure. We have to keep watching it month after month, going through treatment, hoping the treatment works, waiting again, watching again, and so on. A lifelong marathon.
Walking down the hallway after the appointment, we came back to the pendant conversation. Jad Roeske had come with us, and he couldn’t figure it out either. So we tucked it in the back of our minds and went home.
When we got to Roeske’s house to drop Jad off, we told Jad’s wife (also named Julie) about the pendant mystery and showed it to her. She took one look and said, “It’s a marathon runner.” As soon as the words were out of her mouth, we could see it. A marathon runner breaking the tape at the end of the race.
I stood there in shock. God hadn’t forgotten about us. He used a mystery pendant to wash his love over us when we needed it most.
What a beautiful picture of the love, power, grace and mercy of God!
It is a picture of VICTORY! It is the goal! It is the prize! It is the promise! It’s a VISION of the living hope He wants you to grab hold of. Winning! Breaking free from cancer and totally restored to health!
There is a choice put before us. Whose report to believe? The Dr.s have said “There is no cure.” God has said, “By His stripes you were healed!” The scripture also says, “Let God be true and every man a liar.” Romans 3:4
It’s not that the Dr.s are lying about what they have found in your body, which is ‘as far as THEY know’ incurable. It is just that the supernatural TRUTH of God’s word trumps scientific natural fact! And when we KNOW the TRUTH, the truth will make us free!
You are being challenged by the enemy in the same manner as Jesus was in the wilderness – ultimately to look only to natural bread [in this case medical science] for hope of life, or to believe what Jesus said, “Man shall not LIVE by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” [Luke 3:4] “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” [I Cor1: 25].
And to bolster your faith with LIVING HOPE, You have been given your ‘Gold Medal’ahead of time! So now you can ‘stand’ on the podium of God’s Word and confidently sing the anthem, “The victory is mine when the battle is the Lord’s!” II Chronicles 20: 15b and 17a. Let your spirit rise up and send His praise ‘Judah’ forth and the battle will be won!
for – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” But He has sent you the ‘previews of coming attractions’ embossed on a pendant! Halleluia!
LIVING HOPE with HOPE for LIVING!
God is SO good! He loves you so much! No, He hasn’t forgotten about you, far from it – and “If God be for you who can be against you?”!!,
To your GOOD HEALTH!
Norma