I wanted to share a message I heard from a pastor that really spoke to my heart this past Sunday. He told us that he was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and that he was encouraged by the doctor's to get surgery to remove the cancer from different parts in his body. The issue was that he had to get so many areas inside of him removed, he wondered if there will be anything left inside of him to continue living. He remembered that one man from his church had cancer and had went through surgery five years ago (I believe I heard right that it was 5 years ago). The pastor went to this man to ask if the surgery helped in any way and to seek his advice. In the end, the pastor was encouraged enough to go through with his surgery.
When the pastor was almost about to leave the hospital to go home after his hospital stay, he found out that the doctor's could not remove the tumor (that has grown to the size of a fist and grew into the main artery leading to the heart which could cause severe bleeding and death if the artery was punctured while cutting out the tumor) and closed him back up again without doing anything.
In the end, the pastor said that he realized that God makes examples out of those people that die early from cancers or other diseases. God wants us to be examples to others and this is including even in a state of illness or early death.
I listened to this pastor, and I understood his message well. God wants me to be an example to others even through my sufferings. He made this pastor be a living example of a man with a terrible sickness, but one who was THANKFUL to God for sending him trials and worries. The pastor was most likely heard and understood on a much deeper level that day because of his personal testimony and his reaction to it.
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