What's Growing in There?

Sometimes news preaches all by itself.
I just heard on CNN that a young baby was found to have a foot growing in his brain.

Yes, a foot.

Doctors said it may have been the beginning of a twin—but in the wrong place. They removed the foot and the baby will have to be closely monitored for awhile to make sure nothing else begins to grow! So far, all is fine. What a gut-wrenching experience!

Can you imagine being the parents of that baby; hearing the frightening diagnosis and then the good news their child’s ‘foot-in-the-brain’ was surgically removable? Do you think those parents hesitated for a single minute? Would they have delayed the surgery until they thought it was “really necessary?”

If all the untruths we have told, self-deceptions that we nurse, and blind spots that we entertain were physical entities like that baby’s foot in the brain, how would we treat them? Would we allow an examination by the Lord of Life? Would we accept the news that the second person growing wrongly inside us could be removed?

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God-- what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Love in the Lord,
PH