Don't Waste your Cancer...

or you can replace cancer with whatever is keeping you from Glorifying God in your suffering. Pastor John Piper is the pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. He had surgery this week to remove the cancer from his prostate. He wrote this article the night before his surgery. The ten main points are listed below. How often I wallow in my suffering and make it all about me instead of all about God's glory!! These 10 points remind me who my Creator and Sustainer is. Praise God for His sovereignty and for how "...all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28) .

Don't Waste Your Cancer...

1. You will waste your cancer if you do not believe it is designed for you by God.
2. You will waste your cancer if you believe it is a curse and not a gift.
3. You will waste your cancer if you seek comfort from your odds rather than from God.
4. You will waste your cancer if you refuse to think about death.
5. You will waste your cancer if you think that "beating" cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing Christ.
6. You will waste your cancer if you spend too much time reading about cancer and not enough time reading about God.
7. You will waste your cancer if you let it drive you into solitude instead of deepen your relationships with manifest affection.
8. You will waste your cancer if you grieve as those who have no hope.
9. You will waste your cancer if you treat sin as casually as before.
10. You will waste your cancer if you fail to use it as a means of witness to the truth and glory of Christ.