Hi, this is Hank Hanegraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible instrument

broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

Today, I want to mention once again my sister Joby.

She is an absolutely amazing example of faith.

Right now she's sitting in a chemo chair, and she's about to begin

round number 16. And as she does, she starts to thank people for their continued prayers,

for their cards, for their encouragements.

Joby says, to hear the words we are praying for you is like, well, like salve to a wearied, grieving soul.

She says, for me, this has been an Elijah week with its Mount Carmel moments, those moments in the

dark cave. And then she asks why it is that so often we cannot trust our Savior more.

Why so often we shoulder the doubting Thomas Manil.

But then she reiterates her gratefulness that God in his mercy has given her another two months of life.

Amazing, says Jobie, how her life is now measured in small increments, not by a half a year or by

years, but in very small increments.

And then she writes that God's continued love for her is simply amazing.

She knows that the day will come when the chemo is no longer effective.

And then she asked, will I still be able to give grateful thanks to a merciful Savior,

to yield uncomplainingly, to mold myself slowly into his sovereign will and to joyfully accept the closing of my life on earth.

But awe, says Jobi, the glorious knowledge that he has redeemed me and will shepherd me personally by his staff,

shepherd me from the musty, deep, disappointing, hollow black caves of this life into my eternal home.

A forever bright, victorious Mount Carmel.

And then amazingly, she says, I look forward to that moment.

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