"God is good all the time" is a song that I learned while visiting Colorado Springs, Colorado. This is the song that I learned in the midst of learning, that my nephew, Kole has three spots on his brain. God remains good even in the midst of pain. "God is good" is what, my sister Janni, has repeated over and over to countless audiences over the last months! God is good and that will never change! The best news is that God is in the business of bringing good lasting change in us! We have so many problems in this fallen world, which cancer is only one of million. God being good never changes. However, He desires to work change by bringing good in our lives. He works change to free us from our many problems and pain. Problems we just can not fix! I have learned that the quote by Jim Cymbala is true. He says that he "discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him". We all have to admit that we are desperate to see Kole healed completely, however there is not one human being out there who has the ability to heal Kole's cancer. Here we find ourselves, weak! God is the only one who can! He is the only one who can speak the world into existence in six days. He has the only blood that can wipe out all the sins, of all the peoples, of all the generations, since time has begun and on! He is the only one who can say "I am bigger than that"! We need to have faith to believe "God is who he says he is and can do what he says he can do", for that is what God is looking for! He wants us to take our eyes off of ourselves and our world and look to the God who sits enthroned around the circle of the earth! It says in Isaiah 40:22 in regards to God's power that "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers". It also says in Isaiah 2:22 to "stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?". We can I say "I am a bigger grasshopper than you!" But, we are still all grasshoppers in power. Compare us to the magnitude of God and it is a laugh! I just love Malachi 4:2 which says "But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall". God offers us release from all our troubles. Troubles we "grasshoppers" cannot fix or get free from! Our help comes from our unseen God and not from seen "grasshoppers". In 2 Corinthians 4:18 it says "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" and can I add powerful. I say "Lord reveal yourself to us in all your great might and glory". Pray to the God seated on the throne to heal Kole, as only He can! May we admit our weaknesses and allow God to release us from all the emptiness and problems we have as well. May we all be "released from our stalls" and leap!

Jodi