What is it there for?

Auto-generated transcript. It may contain mistakes.

You see these holes in my neck? Last week I had this doctor's appointment that confirmed something that I had been really afraid of. So, I recently found out that my grandma, my mom, and my sister have papillary thyroid cancer, leading me to think, "Hmm, should I get checked?" Well, I got checked. And uh I'll tell you the results in a second, but for the last month I've been freaking out because who wants that? Who wants to think they might possibly have cancer? And um I constantly think through I've been thinking through like all the different things that can go wrong. Like if this happens, you know, using AI, using Google, just trying to figure out what am I supposed to do with this information. And um staying up super late, losing lots of sleep. What ended up happening was um the day couple days before my appointment I had this revelation come to mind. My pastor a long time ago said like, "Hey, if you ever uh are struggling and reading through scripture, and you see the word therefore, ask yourself what is it therefore?" You talk about Paul, right? So, Paul has this thorn in his flesh and three times he asked prayed for it to be taken away and it wasn't there. And so, that word therefore also appears in that passage. And so, asking this question, "What is it therefore? What is that thorn therefore?" So, for me I was praying, "God, please don't let me have cancer. Please take this away. Please just any that I just don't want to deal with this thought of having to go through cancer, whatever that might look like." And uh when that revelation hit me, asking what it's therefore, it made me stop, reframe it, and actually ask God, "Okay, let's say I had cancer. What could it be therefore?" How could God use it? And then immediately a flood of all of these different ways and ideas came to mind. And I just had this overwhelming peace. For example, my wife and I love to serve at um outreach events and serve in the community. And so, we had signed up several months ago for this one. Had no idea what it was, but it was family friendly. I was able to bring my 6-year-old daughter. And they sent me an email the day that I had this revelation right before it that said, "Hey, you were going to be serving with kids and bowling with them, and they also have cancer." And it made me think, "Huh." So, the week that I have my results, my appointment to figure out if I have cancer or not, I also will be serving with kids that have cancer? Interesting. Well, I also thought about in this last year, this YouTube Shorts platform, everything had grown grown from 5,000 to 64,000 subscribers. Could God be using this as an opportunity for us to connect, reach more people, and show the love of Jesus, to be a light of the world? You know, we don't hide those things. So, the doctor thinks I have papillary thyroid cancer, and I get the results within the next day. I'll keep you posted. God bless you.