OUCH!!

I went to my yearly dermatology exam. I had been going every 6 months for a couple of years after a scare with melanoma. Honestly, I owe my life to the astute dermatologist who saw a spot I would never have thought looked suspicious and it turned out to be level 1 melanoma. Caught early, it is very treatable. Wait, and it kills.

So yesterday, I went for my yearly check and she saw a spot she wanted to biopsy. Drat. It was very small, and on my leg, so I figured it would be like a mosquito bite. WRONG.

"OW!!!!" I shrieked as she chopped away, "THAT HURTS!"
She spoke not a word but continued cutting the last bit of my tender flesh and then assured me, "No more hurts."
Had she not saved my life once already, I would have punched her.

This is a very sorry truth of life. Sometimes, it hurts like all get-out, but the pain is absolutely essential for ultimate healing and health. Daily, I am convicted of some "spot" on my character, that left untreated, will become malignant over time. God is famous for cutting those spots out, gently if possible, but the less we attend to it ourselves, the less gentle the treatment. Best to remove those dangerous pieces early, before the tentacles of sin and hardened hearts become so entrenched that only radical surgery is left to save us. Every cutting away of what has become a part of us, however briefly, hurts. Nonetheless, better a moment of pain than an eternity of regret.

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For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (2 Corinthians 4:17 NIV)


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