Yesterday SEBTS’ Dr. Black wrote on his blog how we can be praying for him and his wife while she is suffering with uterine cancer. Read How to Pray for Us and pray.

Ask yourself how you would respond if your spouse came down with a puzzling illness. Anger? Loss of faith?

What Dr. Black writes isn’t just about how we can pray for his wife Becky but reveals what I think is his prayer for us: that we hang on to the upside-down Messiah who “is sovereign, and He sovereignly disposes.” His goal is not to smooth over the difficulties of suffering but to “put the ballast of biblical truth in the belly of our little boat” as John Piper writes,

Put the ballast of biblical truth
in the belly of our little boats,
lest the crashing waves of calamity
in these changing times
cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble.

Be struck by the gravity of Dr. Black saying at a time like this, “So Jesus can be trusted. We can rely on His good judgment when it comes to our health. The only thing we can never justify is disobedience to His commands.”

Pray for Dave and Becky Black.