Some colleagues were speaking earlier in the week about a mutual former colleague who has just been diagnosed with cancer. Whilst both were keen to get in touch with their former colleague, they were reluctant because they just didn’t know what to say when they got on the phone, or typed out the e-mail.
And I really sympathise with them. What do you say to someone in these situations? You can go for the typical Australian “bad luck mate, it’ll be alright”. Yet that response is so empty and fails to provide any reassurance or comfort. I know if someone said that to me I would respond with “How do you know it will be alright? What confidence do you have to say that?”
This is clear evidence to me that illness, suffering and death were never part of God’s plan for our world, and if it weren’t for our rebellion against God, we would never have to face such painful scenarios. I can persevere in these situations in the knowledge that one day God will restore creation to the way it should be, the way it was right back at the beginning. So it really pains me to see others struggling through these circumstances without any guarantee of an improved situation soon, or ever.
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