by Dave and Jan Dravecky
Mark 10:17-27 What a potent dose of encouragement is verse 27, where Jesus reminds us that "all things are possible with God." When we are suffering, we sometimes forget this. Our minds cloud over with doubt and uncertainty, and what really seems omnipotent to us is our affliction. Thank God, this is never true! Not even with an affliction as dreaded as cancer, as the following poem declares: Cancer is so limited . . . It cannot cripple love, It cannot shatter hope, It cannot corrode faith, It cannot eat away peace, It cannot destroy confidence, It cannot kill friendship, It cannot shut out memories, It cannot silence courage, It cannot invade the soul, It cannot reduce eternal life, It cannot quench the Spirit, It cannot lessen the power of the resurrection. Excerpted from a devotional in "The Encouragement Bible," pg 1351. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing.
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