Write this down: There is a bad time to do something you need to do now, and that time is tomorrow. So, if you need to make a phone call, pick up the phone. If you need to tell a co-worker or classmate about Jesus, open your mouth. If you need to start a new career, do it. Whatever you need to do, today is the day to make it happen.
Life doesn’t have to be filled with regrets. But it will be if you put off until tomorrow something you should do today. You might not get tomorrow. This reality saved my life.
6.) I learned that living with fear is the ultimate failure.
I am a lover, not a fighter. But if fear were a person, I would put a beat-down on it. Like the kind of beat-down Hulk Hogan used to put on fools who stepped in the ring with him. Fear cripples dreams. It severs relationships. It takes people to the brink of something great and tells them they aren’t good enough.
And this is fear’s lethal punch. “Don’t be a failure. Don’t swing and miss. As long as you don’t fail, you win.”
But what if living in fear is worse than failing? What if living in fear is the ultimate failure?
Cancer taught me life is too short to listen to fear’s lies. Before cancer, I embraced mediocrity. Afterward, I was not content with it. You shouldn’t be either. God didn’t create you for mediocrity. He created you in his image. There’s nothing mediocre about that.
And it’s not that I believe I can change the world. I am not sure what people mean when they say that. But I refuse to allow fear to cripple my life. Because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, nothing is impossible for me. Before cancer, those were empty words. Now, they are my life’s anthem.
Fear tells you a mediocre life is a better trade than a meaningful life with lots of mistakes. Don’t listen. It’s a lie.
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Cancer is a dreadful disease. I pray for a day when blog posts on cancer are nonexistent because cancer is nonexistent. I believe that day is coming. I believe it because I trust my Savior Jesus is coming to restore all things. I am ready for that day. I long for these words to be reality.
I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone.” Revelation 21:3-5
For those battling cancer right now (I know several personally), I am praying for you. Keep fighting. Cling to God. Don’t let go. Ever.
I probably won’t cure cancer. I probably won’t cure world hunger. I probably won’t find homes for all the orphans in the world. But I will live with passion, meaning and intentionality. I won’t allow fear to cripple me. I can’t. Life is too short.
Why would I live this way?
Here’s a better question …Why not?
I love you all. To God be the glory forever. Amen!
