Take Heart

Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada and I will be the first to confess, it’s the little things that can get you down. Like, um, this battle with cancer I’m going through right now? It’s making it harder for me to feed myself with my right arm where I had the tumor removed. Suddenly something that I had taken for granted for so many years was taken away from me – and the first time I sat at the dining room table with Ken having to feed me everything on my plate? It wasn’t easy. But I do encouragement from the words of Jesus when he said, “take heart, for I have overcome the world.” And you know what? Jesus is helping me do just that – he’s helping me overcome my weak muscles and learn how to feed myself again. So, I forget what I’ve lost; with God, I cannot help but gain. And that’s a promise for you, too.

If you are experiencing loss right now, take heart. Because with God, there’s always much, much to gain.