Jimitri and Ruby Green’s two-year-old son Deuce was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
In his email below which arrived yesterday, Jimitri refers to the incident recorded in the Gospel of Mark where Jesus and the disciples were in a severe storm on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus was asleep in the stern of the boat.
Panicking, the disciples woke Him and said, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
“And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Hush, be still.’ And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
“And He said to them, ‘Why are you fearful? Do you still have no faith?’
“They became very much afraid and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?'” (Mark 4:35-41).
Now here’s Jimitri’s email:
After the first round of chemo, hearing the news that Deuce was not in remission really crushed my spirit (at least I thought). I had so many questions for God running through my mind.
Questions like:
How could God not honor our prayer?
Why isn’t God listening?
Are we not doing something right?
And many other things.
But I was brought to one of my favorite stories in the Bible—Jesus calming the storm. It wasn’t until the disciples started to get a little wet they started to question God’s care for them.
But a miracle is performed in such a fearful circumstance.
Here’s what I’ve learned from this month, even when the water rises or things don’t go how we plan them to.
God is still in the stern.
Even when things seem to be going completely wrong, God is still in the stern.
In our situation
Deuce did not go into remission, but God is still in the stern. Therefore He is still in ultimate control.
We received amazing news today after allowing Jaleah [their daughter] to be tested [to be a possible bone-marrow donor]. She’s a 10/10 perfect match for him. This is rare because there was only a 25% chance that she’d be a perfect match. So this means his donor will be his baby sister.
Praise God!
Please share this news with our church family. We are happily rejoicing and we know that the next few months may have more bumps in the road, but we’re continuously trusting that God is in the stern, and we have nothing to fear.
Also that in the end of all of this we’ll be just as amazed as the disciples were after the storm obeyed Jesus Christ.
Love you all so much. Please continue to pray with and for us.
Please see the related post of February 19, “Suffering Viewed Through the Lens of Faith” http://fulfillingourpurpose.org/2018/02/19/suffering-viewed-through-the-lens-of-faith
Scripture quotations taken from the NASB: http://www.lockman.org/
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