Brian loved football. In tenth-grade he was diagnosed with cancer in his left leg and endured chemotherapy. He lost his hair, but returned to sports. Then cancer came raging back. The doctors wanted to remove Brian’s leg above the knee.
Brian wanted to play football. He had two years left and decided to postpone the amputation until he finished high school football. He played his junior year, but the cancer got worse and he had the leg removed during the spring. Unfortunately, Brian did not live to see his senior year. The disease had spread. Whether putting off the amputation allowed the cancer to spread or not, I do not know. But it was the question on everyone’s minds at the time.
—And it was the wrong question. Better questions would be:
WHY WOULD A SOVEREIGN GOD ALLOW CANCER TO CLAIM BRIAN? WHY BRIAN AND NOT ME?
The Bible says King Amaziah–king of Judah–planned to go to battle using many soldiers from Israel. But a prophet told King Amaziah not to take the army of Israel with him—because God was not happy with Israel.
“But if you do go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to make one stumble” 2 Chronicles 25:8.
The prophet says: whatever route you take, “God has the power to help or to make one stumble.” God has a plan and He will see that you make the right choices. As long as you are praying and laying your decisions before God, He will guide you, and He will accomplish His will.
HE IS GOOD, Psalm 100:5. And “His ways are perfect” Psalm 18:30.
He is good, and He loves you, and you can trust Him with ALL THINGS. –As for Brian, God used his illness and death to arrest the attention of all the youth at FBC and NWA, a revival broke out, and hundreds of lives and families are different today as a result.
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