For Casey… Thank you.

I don’t have cancer.  I haven’t had to fight that battle.  I wonder if it is because the Lord knows that it would be too great a battle for me.  

He reserves these difficult battles for the greatest of His warriors.

And Casey was one of those warriors.  And he fought a great fight.  And something inside me tells me that He fought it for the same reason Christ came… for others.

Why else would he hang on for so long?  When it seemed that his time was up… many times… Casey refused to receive it.  He stayed the course.  He did it for those whose prayers were always rising up for him.

What a tremendous burden it must have been to be the hope of so many.  What strength he demonstrated.  What faith!

I wonder how many times the Spirit came to him as asked, “Now?” And Casey said, “Not yet.”  

What love!

One time, when I was at the church on a Monday night and had moved to the front to worship Casey came up to me and said, “I want to be where you are.”

He had no idea how much I wanted to be where he was.  In a place of such determination.  In a place of such faith.  In a place of such power.

The burden to pray for Casey had been removed from my heart on Thursday of last week.  

I don’t know how long Casey battled cancer… but I can be certain of this… the fight took more out of the devil than it ever did out of him.

Heaven received a great man of faith on Friday, April 15^th, 2011.  

A man whose faith drove me to be desperate for God. 

And I just want to say thank you.

Thank You Casey.  The life you lived gave me hope.

Until we meet in glory…

SDG,

Mike