Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is a nasty diagnosis. The survival rate at five years is only one to three percent. Not good odds for anyone. For a 78-year-old man, truly not hopeful. But. Alex Trebek, who is really one of my very favorite celebrities, has heard that horrid diagnosis and he’s been pretty forthcoming about his illness and his fight against it with the millions of people who watch Jeopardy each day. So how cool is it that Trebek recently announced that his cancer is in ‘near remission’? Maybe more than cool. Maybe miraculous. You see, back in March when he announced his illness, Trebek asked for prayer. Now if you watch NBC or CBS news, you might not know this because they censored it out last week, but Trebek is giving credit, at least partially, to millions of prayers for his good news, and his doctors aren’t arguing.
I don’t want to get too political here, but one point begs to be made. No matter how much our ‘mainstream media’ or other factions in our country want to limit and even eliminate God and ignore His power, the truth is that God is just not willing to be censored or limited or ignored. It doesn’t matter if NBC doesn’t like or chooses to edit out the fact that Trebek’s cancer remission isn’t following statistics. It doesn’t matter that they left out Trebek’s words giving prayer (and consequently God) the glory for his improved health. It doesn’t matter that our society has decided to marginalize and try to disregard God and the people who have a personal relationship with Jesus. It doesn’t matter because God is bigger and stronger and more beautiful than any bullying that can come His way. And we, those of us who know God personally, know the Truth about His love and power even when others try to silence it.
