A Storm on the Horizon

Posted on Categories Christian Living, Sean Perron

Updates:

  • We are home! Our return flight was delayed at least five times, so we ended up arriving at our house around 3 a.m. The trip wiped me out, but I’m recovering!
  • We’ve started unpacking!
  • My next chemo treatment is scheduled for July 24th.

Prayer Requests and Praises:

  • We are thankful to be home. It is surreal.
  • This Sunday, I will be preaching at First Baptist on my cancer journey and Psalm 34. We’d love to see you there!
    The service is at 10:45 a.m. (EST) and you can livestream it at this link if you’re unable to attend: https://fbcjax.com
  • I discovered I couldn’t fit into any of my dress clothes. This is an answer to prayer because a big concern at the beginning of our transplant journey was potential weight loss. (I also know many folks have wanted me to gain weight for a while!) We went shopping and tried on clothes to make sure I had something to preach in on Sunday instead of gym shorts.
  • My mysterious water retention continues (also probably contributes to my increase in size), but I’m not alarmed. I’ll continue to be monitored in the weeks ahead.

What I’m Learning:

  • I’ve been reflecting on Proverbs 10:24–25. This passage teaches how the righteous respond to trials compared with the wicked:

What the wicked dreads will come upon him,
but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more,
but the righteous is established forever.
(Proverbs 10:24–25)

  • This passage assumes that a storm is coming—for everyone. “When the tempest passes.” There is a storm on the horizon for each of us. I don’t know when yours will arrive, but I know it’s coming.
  • Before the storm comes, turn to the Lord. Nurture your relationship with Him now by faith, so that when the tempest passes, you will be established forever—and not like the wicked, who are devastated.
  • Deliverance in this life is a “glimpse” of the deliverance to come in eternal life. And when the wicked are destroyed in this life, it serves as a parable of what will happen in the end times, when Christ judges the world. The righteous will be saved; the wicked will be condemned.
  • Deliverance from cancer—and from every affliction—is meant to cause us to reflect upon our final state and whether we will be delivered in the end.

What Has Been Encouraging:

  • After three months, we are finally home. When we walked into our house, it was clear that someone from First Baptist had been here. Posters with handwritten notes from church members are all over our walls!
  • There are so many, I’m pretty sure we’ll be finding them in different rooms for a while. It will take us some time to read through all the encouragement. We are grateful to be back in Florida with our First Baptist church family.

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