INSPIRATION FROM MELATHIA

The story of Melathia Eldad Tjendera has greatly motivated my youth. As a teenager diagnosed with aggressive bone cancer (osteosarcoma), Melathia had to live with a leg bone implant. The food entering her body couldn't be taken lightly, to support her health. However, this condition did not make Melathia give up. This girl faced her condition with courage, still eager to learn, and even able to smile broadly! In the end, Melathia did return to the Lord, but her life story became a historical trace of life that is timeless.

Natural law will indeed make the physical body of everyone weaker, no matter how strong and powerful the person is in their youth. We are familiar with the term prime age, which refers to the age when a person experiences the peak of their life, before everything starts to decline. Responding to this inevitable condition, the Bible wants to remind us of the spiritual human fact, which works against the laws of nature. When the physical human deteriorates, even weaker until death comes, the spiritual human condition can be renewed every day.

Today, when we have to face the fact that our physical condition is not as prime as before, or if God allows our physical condition to decline, let us not lose heart. Be strong in the grace and hope in Christ. Focus on strengthening the spiritual human through personal communion with God and His word so that the Lord can still use our lives to have an impact and be a witness to His glory. --GHJ/www.renunganharian.net