Perfectly Whole (Song)

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One morning while making breakfast, a smile came to my face as I listened to the playful sounds of our three children. I wasn’t quite as ‘chipper’ as they were that morning, because I was to get a CAT scan at the hospital to check for any reoccurrence of cancer. At age thirty-five, I was diagnosed with the dreaded disease, ovarian cancer. Five years had passed since my first bout, but the doctors continued keeping a close watch on me.

After feeding the kids, they went back to their playing, and I sat down on the corner of the sofa where I had my special time with Jesus each day. As I began to pray, I shared with the Lord how I was scared to go through these tests once again and asked Him for His grace and strength to help me. I then began reading Matthew 14. It spoke of how the multitudes followed Jesus even to a desert place and how He fed five thousand men with just five loaves and two fishes. Encouraged, my heart filled with hope and joy as I read Matthew 14:34-36:

“And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.”

Through God’s holy Word, I was reminded that the real disease is not cancer, even though it, along with other life-threatening ailments, could be fatal. I had read in the Bible how this life is but a vapor, but eternity is forever. The predator of death is on the prowl of all man because all have sinned.

My thoughts quickly turned to how at age fourteen, I heard the glorious gospel – the good news of how Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came and paid the debt of sin on the cross was buried and rose again on the third day. Jesus Christ conquered death. At age fourteen, I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and asked Him to forgive me of my sin and save me.

I began to rejoice knowing whether physical diseases come or go, the fact that I asked Jesus to save my soul has made me perfectly whole and that because of Jesus, one day I will step out of this body and keep on living forever in heaven. After reading Matthew 14 and with a heart of gratitude for salvation in Jesus Christ, I sat down at the piano and wrote the words and music to “Perfectly Whole.”