The Wig Is Masking The Real Problem

Look closely at this picture. Look even deeper.

In this picture of me with the kids, things look pretty normal. Even though I have a smile on my face and I am with my smiling kids, if you look a little closer you see that something is "off." Do you see it? I have a wig on that LOOKS like my hair and is even STYLED like my hair, but it's not my hair.

I remember going in public with my wig on trying to BE normal and ACT normal and LOOK normal...but you know what? Things were not normal. I was NOT in good health. I was battling for my life. Yet for the kids' sake....for my husband's sake...and even for my sake, I wanted to pretend that everything was ok and NORMAL when I got around other people.

Underneath the smiles of everyone in that picture was a mom and her children who were going through a season of pain. No one but our family saw how I would be sick, lying in bed for days on end trying to heal from chemo treatments. The kids had to tiptoe around the house many days so they didn't disturb a sleeping mom who was too sick to get up and play. We were indeed going through a trial and a very difficult storm. All the while, when we got out of the house we tried to cover it all up so no one would notice.

You know.....it's not just a cancer patient that usually tries to look normal and cover up the pain and realities of the struggle. We ALL do.
What about the marriage that is broken? The fights and abuse that happens behind closed doors, but when in public, we mask it all and act like everything is ok? What about the excessive drinking or drug abuse? The addiction to pornography or affairs that we think no one else knows about? What about the language and hatred we spew out to our family members but when we get outside of the privacy of our own home, we mask it with smiles and hugs? It all behaves like cancer....it's a silent killer.

Maybe you aren't battling a physical sickness that is threatening your life, but you are battling a sin issue that has a noose around your neck, barely allowing you to breath. Maybe the devil you are battling is costing you your peace and joy and will possibly cause you to lose EVERYTHING if you don't get the help and treatment you need.

We are so good at TRYING to cover up our problems. We try our hardest to look and act normal when in reality, our problems are stealing everything that is dear. That's what the devil is good at....stealing, killing, and destroying and he does it in such a tricky way that we usually don't even realize he's doing it until it's too late.

Is it time for YOU to be real and honest with yourself? With others? It's it time to take off YOUR "wig" and admit you are in need of help? You may need a team of people to rally around you and help you face TRUTH.

When battling cancer I had to have a TEAM of doctors, nurses, volunteers, family, friends to help not only me, but my entire family. We cannot defeat these devils alone...we were made by God to need others to help us. And I will say that I have had to have a team of people around me to fight many other sin battles as well. We all have devils and issues to overcome.

Is it time for you to reach out for help? Don't pity the people you see in these pictures. Rebecca is 10 years cancer FREE!!! My question to you is this: In 10 years from now, will you be able to say that YOU are _______ free? You fill in the blank with the struggle you are facing.

The Lord wants to free you. It's time to allow truth to overcome the very thing that is trying to hold you down and steal life from you.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life." Jesus