Skin cancer....

Skin cancer ..... Both of my parents had cancer as well as my husband. Several of my close Relatives have had cancer as well, some fatal and some not...but yesterday was my first bout with it...skin cancer, discovered by an continuously itchy patch on skin on my face... They did a local anesthetic, which meant from my nose to the back of my head was numbed, weird feeling...then the doctor scoops out small slices of skin, examines each for cancer until he finds no more , then sews it all back together, sprays it with the cold killing spray, bandages it all up, give you a list of care instructions and send you in your way...to return for suture removal at a later date... My "hole" was about the size of a dime and my question was,,,"now, will one eyebrow be higher than the other? As well as other obvious questions....the the law of gravity takes over stretchy skin into that downward spiral that seems to happening all over... As I was reclining in the "operating " seat, I thought we have come a long way from the priest examining sores on the people in the Old Testament to modern day surgery and extraction. Same close examination, though... Last year when I was Looking at various houses, we found mold in one, which was quickly treated and killed, I thought again of the Old Testament priests looking for growths in the walls of homes.. Examination, over and over again....how closely do I look/examine myself, my heart to see if it is clean? Do I ask God to examine as well? Even though I know He sees and knows everything, am I open to His perusal? Am I willing to let him cut out the cancerous thoughts, the rebelliousness, the ungodly ways, and let His healing power pervade my soul? Thank YOU for modern doctors to treat our unhealthy bodies, to examine them under microscope....but than YOU a as well for your examining eye and heart which reaches to our depths, desiring goodness to overtake the bad...help me to be clean and whole all the way through .... Leviticus 13:3 The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean. 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? Psalm 26:2 Test me, Lord, and try me,examine my heart and my mind; Jeremiah 17:10 “I the Lord search the heartand examine the mind,to reward each person according to their conduct,according to what their deeds deserve.” 1 Corinthians 11:28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. Sent from my iPad