One time my wife’s right side of her face swelled up.  The doctors had no idea of why.  They did a cat scan and did not see anything wrong with her face, but they did see a small lump in her thyroid.  So they scheduled an ultrasound and a nuclear thyroid scan.  By the time that they got to these tests her face swelling went totally away and never came back.  The thyroid tests showed that she had a tumor on the surface of her thyroid that was 1.5cm.  They scheduled surgery for 5 weeks later, saying that it will be a small incision and that they will just scoop it off the top of the thyroid.  When they operated they found that the tumor had grown to 2.5cm, and that it had grown into the middle of the thyroid.  The doctor then had to make a much bigger incision and remove that lobe of the thyroid.  He was amazed at how fast it was growing.  It turned out to be what is called a complex type of tumor.  It has both hard and liquid sections in it.  The doctor said that 70 percent of the time when they take this type of tumor out that it is cancer.  In Tina’s case it was not cancer.  But the rapid growth rate of this tumor makes you wonder what would have happened if her face had not mysteriously swollen up.  I like to think that it was God’s way of making sure that the tumor was detected in time.  

When God sends something unpleasant your way, we need to just have faith.  We need to remember that God is all knowing as well as a loving father.  We need to remember that God knows what He is doing.  He has a reason and we do not have to understand why. 

We are to have faith and trust it to our Savior.