Updates
- Jenny and I flew to Houston this week for scans and my fourth round of maintenance chemo.
- My PET scan is “spotless,” according to my medical team.
- I will continue to get chemo through the end of the year, and my next PET scan is three months from now.
Prayer Requests & Praises
- It is an immense blessing to have a clear PET scan. Praise the Lord! Thank you for praying!
- Please pray for continued clean scans in the months ahead and for protection from infections while I’m immunocompromised.
What I’m Learning
- A frequent prayer of mine is that God would teach me to number my days so that I may gain a heart of wisdom. Each day feels more precious than it did before cancer arrived. We want to prioritize time with the Lord, family, friends, and the church.
- Investing in eternal matters now carries a weight of glory that feels tangibly heavier and more valuable. I find myself asking questions like, “Is what we are watching worth the time I may have left? Is what I’m doing actually important—or trivial and frivolous? What good works remain that I should pursue if my time is limited?”
- God has seen to it that there are good works still left for me to complete. He has prepared them in advance for me. The same is true for you!
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
(Psalm 90:12–14)
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:8–10)
What Has Been Encouraging
- Awaiting the results of a medical scan is unpleasant—especially a serious scan. I’ve been encouraged by Psalm 27, which calls the people of God to put away fear and put on trust in the Lord. Even if an army encamps against us, there is no reason to fear when God is our shelter in the day of trouble.
- David exhorts us to wait on the Lord and to take up courage. This psalm is a timely word for anyone who is facing the unknown. The Lord knows the future, and our hope is in him.
Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
yet I will be confident. (Psalm 27:3)
For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will lift me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5)
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