Chronic Love: Trusting God While Suffering with A Chronic Illness

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Unless we are being conformed by the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2) we will become the arbiters of God himself. It is as if she is walking with her readers through their journeys with chronic illnesses or caring for those with chronic illnesses. This year I have endeavored to stop waiting for my conditions to improve and really persist in glorifying God more than ever in spite of the pain and symptoms, so this book was a very timely read. The idea that God ordains chronic illness, gives it to people for His purposes is utterly disagreeable for me.

Clearly the agony and how our Lord would be treated and killed was within God the Father's direct and ordained will. CLC is a community that started on Instagram in 2017, with the vision that with love and support for one another, together we can get through the hard times with chronic illness and disabilities.While it is obvious the author has the spiritual gift of exhortation, I wish the format would be a bit easier to read. It’s so easy with chronic illness, and even when the pain and suffering are but for a short while, to give into the suffering instead of going to the scriptures for help and comfort.

I was blessed time and again while reading this book as I was reminded of the promises in God’s Word and how they apply to my life. In Chronic Love, Brooke Bartz reveals a deeply raw and descriptive account of life with a chronic and debilitating illness, and she shares with readers how comfort and strength can be found through the Truth in God's Word. It is evident that the heart of this author is for God, and the reader, and for those of us who suffer chronic disease and disability. Brooke desires for teen girls to come to faith in Christ and then live out their lives boldly and unashamed of the Gospel as they hold to their purity and stand for Jesus in their generation. Living with rheumatoid arthritis and gastroparesis, Brooke desires for women to know the truth about the God who loves them and is with them each day as they face disease and disability; she shares the Truth of the Bible as their ultimate healing.Ever since I have become Mental Health Advocate and a try to be the voice for the silent and to END THE STIGMA. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. It has let me see how he too suffered, nailed to the cross and felt that he was forsaken by God, our Father and question why he also let him suffer. As one who has suffered a chronic illness for over a decade I wanted to like this book, and I tried, I really tried. My only complaint is that the author tends to state the same phrase of a Bible verse followed immediately by the Bible verse itself in the same terms, which becomes very repetitious, instead of paraphrasing first.

For true and lasting comfort we must dig deeper into God’s Word and the context in which those much-used passages were written. I received a complimentary copy of this book through JustRead Publicity Tours and was not required to post a favorable review. I read the Kindle version of Chronic Love which may have interfered with the structure of the book to some extent.

Chronic Love” captured my attention because of its subtitle: “Trusting God While Suffering with a Chronic Illness”. I am not sure I would place this is my k-12 Christian school library unless it came to my attention that we had a secondary female student who suffered from a chronic illness. Yet disease was not always her close companion; in the years before her diagnosis, she grew up playing sports and earned a full scholarship to play volleyball at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Those of us with chronic illness are always hoping for a panacea, which the medical field just can’t provide. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Allowed, perhaps, for surely no person would want God to be our puppeteer, mastering and controlling. Saying that Gods will is chronic illness for some I find unbiblical and discouraging no matter all the good passings in this book.

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