Greg's Story

Are you a fair weather friend to God? Do you remember to thank Him when things are going well or do you forget about Him until things are going very badly?

When my friend, Chris, passed away, it felt like things were going very badly indeed. Yet, somehow, I was filled with a sense of gratitude to God for allowing me the chance to have such a friend in this life - even for what seemed to me to be a very short time. I wanted to praise Him because of the comfort He gave me in knowing that Chris was safe at last with Him after such a long battle with cancer.

It seemed very strange to me at the time that I should be feeling this way, but after reading scripture, it seems this is a very natural and good thing to do. To praise God in our troubles and in our joys.

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:  but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

-1 Corinthians 15:54-57

God, I praise your promise

in you I trust, I do not fear. What can mere mortals do to me?

I have made vows to you, God; with offerings I will fulfill them,

Once you have snatched me from death, kept my feet from stumbling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.

-Psalm 56: 11-14