Christian artist Matt Fuqua talked about hoping in God despite not having their prayers answered.
Matt Fuqua
“The Afters” Matt Fuqua shared how choosing to hope in God can be challenging, especially when prayers are unanswered. His wife has been struggling with a lung condition and a cancerous tumor.
“Our guitar player Matt shares about his wife’s battle with a cancerous tumor and lung disease…the incredibly hard events that inspired our song God Is With Us,” written on the band’s Instagram account dated October 2023.
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Matt admitted that life had been difficult to navigate for him, especially as a husband.
“As a husband and a father, we’re just wired to fix things. And there’s no solution. There’s nothing I can do,” he said.
Wife’s Health Struggles
For about a year and a half, Matt’s wife had been experiencing breathing issues and asthma. Her pulmonologist kept thinking it was just asthma, but she knew there was something different that didn’t feel like asthma.
The doctors couldn’t figure it out, so they tried one drug after another and conducted various tests to determine the best course of treatment. Finally, they prescribed a specific drug, but it made her condition worse.
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During that time, she developed a chronic lung disease. It’s so rare that you can hardly find any information about it, which is why Matt felt so confused and unsure.
“Navigating is hard when you don’t have any answers. And you don’t have a path forward,” he said.
Matt Fuqua Chooses To Believe
He added, “You try to keep a positive attitude and stay hopeful. But then I think when her pain gets worse, it’s harder for her to keep that hope.”
At first, Matt thought that after the surgery, things would progress. But that wasn’t what happened. Despite everything, Matt chose to hope in God.
“I think there’s not a good answer for why this happens to my wife, and why the chronic pain, and why this disease doesn’t have a cure,” he said. “But I do feel that God has kind of just walked with us through it, in a weird way. Not the way that gets tied up with a bow at the end, but just like a Job kind of way. … And then thinking about finding hope in that pain is just the presence of God being with us.”
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Reference: 99.1 JOY FM
Header image: Matt Fuqua [99.1 JOY FM]. YouTube, 2 March 2024, https://youtu.be/J4Aqc8g264k?list=PLPNbDud6l_jWF90pMwVXPhSPRUTdEy2L0