Victory Part 2 of 2

While her dad was dying, Ginger was diagnosed with cancer. As Ginger batled for life against this invading virus, a bigger battle raged within-this battle was the strong challenge to her faith. The challenge came in form of a painful “why, God?” The battle raged stronger-her dad was dying back home in Alabama while she as waging war on her own cancer in the hospital in West Palm Beach.

Ginger went before our congregation (1,000 people) that night to publicly declare who had won the battle against the painful “why, God? Ginger has won against so many challenges to her faith, and I can hear her battle song of victory:

I will declare  God’s goodness in the face of death,

I will declare God’s goodness in the face of loss,

I will delcare God’s goodness in the face of my own cancer,

I will delcare God’s goodness in the face of broken dreams.

She concluded her testimony with a powerful statement of faith: “I have learned to trust Him, even when I don’t understand” (see Isa. 40:28). Her willingness to live with understanding is this manifestation of her deep faith. I know she is a candidate for God’s hall of fame, whose inductees are nominated because of their faith. Living without all of the answers in the very heart of the life of faith. (Ginger’s cancer went into remission, and she and Kevin adopted a precious baby girl. Six years later Ginger won the ultimate victory over cancer…Heaven.)

As you know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things (Ecclesiastes 11:5)

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