John & Janice Upton
In Sickness and in Health
In Jesus Name we press on when we as wives find ourselves on the road of sickness with our spouses. I made a vow to the Lord and my husband before witnesses at our wedding that it is for better or worse in sickness and health until death separates us. When I first heard of this essay I said to myself I am too deep in this struggle to talk about it. I won’t have a testimony until I am through it. Then the Lord reminded me that I overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of my testimony.. Rev.12:11
I am reminded also that I am to thank God in the midst of the battle as an act of obedience to Him who is in charge of every detail of my life and my husband. He has told me to rejoice in everything and to pray all the time about what concerns me and my husband. I Thess. 5:16-18 As my husband faces the possibility of 28 radiation treatments for his prostate cancer that has become aggressive and spread into his pelvic area and lymph nodes and he also has to deal with blindness in one eye and not much sight in the other and as he faces mental cognitive decline that is getting worse God says to me I am to rejoice and be thankful in the Lord not necessarily in the circumstances. There is so much to rejoice and thank the Lord for, the first being that our names are written in heaven because of His great sacrifice for my husband and I on Calvary. That is just the beginning of the many wonderful things we can praise God for during this time of my husband’s sickness. He is our Good Shepherd who takes care of His sheep and we will not want for anything. At this time the path is not easy to walk on but He, the Good Shepherd, leads me and my husband on paths of righteousness for His name sake. Psalm 23
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