I sent this to a friend today that has had a lot of sorrow and grief the past 1½. I think it is the best description of the reason I believe God gave me cancer. I definitely know that, although far from perfect, I am a much better person today than I was before getting cancer.
I hope you see it as an answer to why some things happen to you, too... both, good and bad!
Living Stones
You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house. 1 Peter 2:5
I have a friend who lost his job, a fortune, his wife, and his home. But he tenaciously held to his faith in Christ—the only thing he had left. Like Job in the Old Testament, he would not abandon God, no matter what happened. And yet like Job, he couldn’t help but wonder why.
One day he stopped to watch some men doing some stonework on a huge church. One of them was chiseling a triangular piece of stone.
“What are you going to do with that?” asked my friend.
The workman said, “See that little opening away up there near the spire? Well, I’m shaping this down here so it will fit in up there.”
Tears filled my friend’s eyes as he walked away, for it seemed that God had spoken through the workman to explain the ordeal through which he was passing, “I’m shaping you down here so you’ll fit in up there.”
from “Hope for Each Day; Words of Wisdom and Faith” by Billy Graham
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