In His Strength

As of this writing I’ve experienced two total periods of complete hair loss. (FTR I was born with a full head of curly hair.) Strong medicine is needed to kill the bully – cancer. When bunches and gobs end up in the brush, on the floor or in my hand, it’s time to get drastic and crop it as close as can be. Whatever is done to downplay the altered body image, it’s important to remember the Lord’s interested in refining the hidden person of the heart. (1 Peter 3:1-10, 2 Corinthians 4:16). Though the outward man is perishing the incorruptible inward man is being renewed day by day. We could perhaps do without such a drastic character building lesson but would the lesson be as long lasting?

Going bald is hardly in the top ten on anyone’s life goal list, but it can be one of many expected outcomes to chemotherapy infusions. Because hair loss is so visible, it is the one side effect we fear more than some other truly debilitating conditions. Wow! There’s nothing to be done to stop the locks from landing on the floor. When you are in round 2 of this process like me, it’s hard not to wonder when the cancer will really be gone and will the “crowning glory” grow back a second time. Relying on Jesus Christ to carry this load is irrefutable. So inclined are we to take credit for anything good going on, it seems only natural to say our own personal strength got us through. The Apostle Paul honestly admits Christ alone gave him the strength to “do all things.” (Philippians 4:13) and (2 Corinthians 11:25) illustrated many ways Paul was tested through trials.

I’ve been praying a lot lately that the Holy Spirit will provide His strength to go the distance by the power of God. As the old hymn goes, "Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey." 

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