I have been thinking about cancer recently for it seems that it is more common than ever before. You may have dealt with cancer

or you know someone who is dealing with cancer. In Bethel’s circle of fellowship there are several who have dealt with cancer or

are dealing with cancer. From my perspective it is a terrible disease to deal with.

There is another terrible disease that we all have to deal with. It permeates our life and affects all of our actions, thoughts and

attitudes. The disease is sin and sometimes it is called the cancer of sin. Sin is impossible to get rid of and in the end it causes

death for eternity. In the medical world they are always looking for a cure for cancer and for some types of cancer they have found

some effective treatments, but for the cancer of sin there is but one cure. In our world there have been attempts to find a cure but

in the end none of them are effective.

The one effective cure for the cancer of sin is Jesus and what He did for us. It is the gospel of Jesus or the good news of Jesus.

Colossians 1:21-23 summarizes it quite well, “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of

your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without

blemish and free from accusation – if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in

the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul,

have become a servant.”

Through faith in Jesus we are cured from the cancer of sin and the eternal consequences. I pray that you have received the cure.

Rejoicing in the cure of Jesus,