Me Trade? No Way!

Me Trade? No Way!-From time to time, when somebody starts to complain to me
about a cold or some other minor ailment, I tell them that I would trade
places. Invariably, the griping stops pretty quickly. But, difficult as my
life is, I wouldn't trade it with anybody. For several reasons.

A lot of the people that I talk to are not born-again Christians. Unless
they amend their ways and become born-again, all they have to look forward
after death is hell. Not that they know it. But I know that my destiny is
Heaven. I am not jeopardizing that for anything. And that includes physical
comfort in this world. I honestly don't know that I would lose my my salvation if I could trade places
with an unsaved person,  but I am not taking any
chances!

So there is no way that I would trade places with an unsaved person. But,
then, I thought about what I would do if the person who agreed to trade with
me were a born-again Christian. One whose final destiny is the same as mine.
Only their circumstances in this life appear to be less difficult. More
appealing, to be sure, but I would still have to say no. I,  like most
people, am somewhat selfish. I know that when this is over God has a
fantastic plan for my life (though I don't know what). I am not giving it up
just to escape some suffering in this life. Besides, I really want to know
how all this is going to turn out but, if I traded with ANYBODY, I may never
know what would have happened.

Another reason that I I would not trade places with anyone, not even a
born-again Christian, is that there is no way that I am giving up the
intimate relationship that I have with God right now. I have always had a
pretty intimate relationship with God. I have had to because of all the time
I spend alone with nobody to talk with but God. And with God, I don't have
to struggle to make myself understood with the speech board! However, since
the cancer diagnosis, that relationship has become more intimate. At first,
sheer desperation made me turn even more to God. Now that I have calmed down
about that situation, it simply become a habit for me spend even more time
with God. In fact, I have told God that once I am healed and busy again, He
might have to wake me up in this middle of the night just so we can spend
time together like we do now.

Even if I could trade places with somebody, I wouldn't do it. For this reason:
I like to think that my healing will result in a lot of people not going to
hell. Of course, I have no way of knowing that for sure. However, I don't
want take a chance that if I was able to change places with another person
and  I decided to do it, that decision would stop people from going to Heaven
and they would end up in hell. I certainly have no way of knowing that if I
traded, God wouldn't heal that person and use that healing to save people
from hell. All I know is that the suffering that I am going through pales in comparison to what people who go to hell go through. I am not some kind of martyr by any means. What I am is scared of hell-both for myself and for others.

In reality though, this entire blog is  a moot point. I am not able to trade places with anybody and nobody else can trade places with me. We each have our own circumstances to face and with God's help, to overcome.