Thoughts on Cancer

Dr. Curtis Hutson, our second President and Editor, was diagnosed with cancer in 1992. During his 3 year battle, he continued to preached across the nation winning countless souls to Christ. He penned these words that have encouraged so many through the years. We would like you to share this post to help those that are battling cancer.

• Cancer can hurt you, but it cannot harm you.
• Cancer can shorten your earthly life, but it cannot affect your eternal life.
• Cancer can steal your days, but it cannot steal your dreams.
• Cancer can cause you to be immobile, but it cannot keep you from being immovable.
• Cancer may make you weak, but it cannot take away the joy of the Lord which is our strength.
• Cancer can incapacitate you, but it cannot captivate you.
• Cancer may bring pain, but it cannot keep you from praising the Lord and rejoicing in His name.
• Cancer may make you look bad on the outside, but it cannot change the inside where you have everlasting life and the very presence of God Himself in the Person of the Holy Spirit.
• Cancer may take your physical life, but it cannot destroy the everlasting life which is given to you the moment you trust Christ as Saviour. As a matter of fact, it can't even diminish it. It is just as real in your weakest moment as it was the day you trusted Him as Saviour.
• Cancer may put you in the grave, but it cannot keep you there. There shall be a resurrection.
• Cancer may destroy the physical tabernacle in which you live, but it cannot touch the heavenly mansion that is being prepared for you.
• Cancer may cause a temporary separation from your family and friends, but it cannot stop the blessed reunion that is going to take place someday when all of God's children are called on to Heaven either by way of death or the rapture.
• Cancer may weaken your body to the place where you cannot even say to your dearest friends, "I love you" but it cannot keep you from loving.
• Cancer, at times, may cause you to want to give up; but it cannot keep you from going up. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
• Cancer may follow you to the graveyard, but it cannot follow you beyond.
• Cancer may rob you of strength, but it cannot rob you of your Saviour.
• Cancer may make you weep for the night, but it cannot take away the joy that is coming in the morning.
• Cancer may temporarily separate you from friends, but it cannot separate you from the love of God.
• Cancer may confuse your mind and understanding, but it cannot confuse or change your standing with the great Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which has been settled by a simple act of faith in Him.
• Cancer may stop your labors, but it cannot undo your works.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth...that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
—Rev. 14:13

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."—Romans 8:38,39