Indeed. I had cancer, the worst kind too - of the heart. I didn't even know I had a particularly nasty, virtually undetectable kind of cancer - what in some medical textbooks is known as "pride."

It was pretty well covered up. I thought I was going to go to another state and teach at a Bible college, that people would get ministered to, fed the word, and grow in God. True. But...the cancerous prideful motivation was something that God somewhat bluntly and rather unexpectedly pointed out to me at the spiritual warfare retreat with Dr. Blom a couple weeks ago. I never would have thought I was prideful. I don't think too many others would have either. Fortunately, it was a relatively minor surgory - just a few pricks, a couple incisions, and a deep pulling out of the sin of my heart. I say relatively easy because once the shock of finding it was over, repentance came fairly quickly.

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1. Unknown on November 18, 2008 at 1:14 AM

   Nice.
   Makes me think of one of my favorite quotes: "You can have no greater sign of a more confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough." -William Law