An Anchor in Glory

The last few days we have learned a lot from our team of doctors and we feel extremely blessed and grateful for their knowledge and expertise and also their compassionate care of the situation. We learned that Karen’s cancer is grade III (that is, the most abnormal and aggressive) and stage 2 (out of four stages - based on the progression of the tumor). We were very thankful to learn there is no cancer anywhere else in her body. Praise God! We had a small celebration in the office when her doctor announced that!

Later the oncologist looked at her and said, “We are going to cure you.”
We are so grateful for God’s goodness and already see His hand in myriads of ways working in both easy and hard circumstances. On Monday, Karen will receive her first chemotherapy treatment and then every three weeks after that for a time. She will receive another twelve weeks with a different kind of chemotherapy and then shortly after surgery and radiation.

God is faithful in calling us up using these circumstances. So many of you have called and mentioned God’s hand at work. The verse John 15:16 comes to mind.

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”

Being appointed to bear fruit was none of our choosing, and often we have a sense of unworthiness to fulfill this calling. You are never more aware of your mortal nature than in the hours of doubt and fear when God allows trouble to remind you of your true vulnerability and helplessness…and also of His power, faithfulness and goodness.

God shows Himself faithful again and again, reminding us that we are not called to produce the fruit…only to bear it as He grows it in our lives.

“Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?” James 2:5

Under His Mercy,

The Lenz Family