When God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh to do His work, Jonah ran from the Lord. It took being swallowed by a whale to get Jonah back on track and doing what God wanted him to do. The same was true for me. I wasn’t swallowed by a whale, but God did get me back on track. My whale came in the form of breast cancer.

The Bible says in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Who would ever think that cancer of any kind could work for good? To me, cancer was something that other people got. It wasn’t supposed to happen to me, right? But, the reality was that I had been diagnosed with cancer. And the situation was serious, far more so than I even realized at the time. Not just for what could physically happen, but also where I was in my spiritual journey.

I had reached a place in my life where I was just going thru the motions with so many things, including my service to the Lord. That’s hard to admit and very sad to say, but it was true. I had become complacent, lazy and had a false sense of security. I believed in Jesus Christ the son of the living God. I went to Church every Sunday. I prayed. I was going to heaven, right? However, there were so many things that I wasn’t doing. I wasn’t reading my Bible like I should. I wasn’t seeking the direction that my life should go with God. I wasn’t walking closely with the Lord and looking to Him to take care of the details in my life. I wasn’t looking for ways and opportunities to serve the Lord and to glorify Him. I didn’t have the joy in my heart that I needed. I wasn’t as thankful to God as I should be. I wasn’t mentioning Him to others and telling them what a difference He has made in my life. And the list goes on…I had become a lukewarm Christian. And in Revelation 3:15-16 the Holy Spirit says, “ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” I was in a dangerous place.

Thankfully, God did not give up on me. He walked with me the whole time. He never stopped blessing me with His peace to get me thru my difficult physical journey. And by His grace, I’m now healed physically and have been spiritually restored and walking closer to Him than I ever have in my life. So yes, definitely! I can testify that God does work all things for good to them that love Him! I am so blessed and so happy to share it with whoever will listen!

It took a whale named cancer for me to get back on that straight and narrow path. In Proverbs 14:12, the Bible says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” We all fall short of perfection. It is written in Romans 3:23, “ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”. Every one of us is in need of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You need to ask this of yourself, “Is it going to take a whale for me to get my life right with God?”

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