From Afar
Ryan likes to watch Flip or Flop, the HGTV home
renovation show hosted by Tarek El Moussa.
So when HGTV ran a marathon of the show one day in 2013, she watched a
few episodes. That’s when she saw
something that caught her attention.
Ryan is a registered nurse. From her training in the medical field, she
saw something about El Moussa that concerned her: she noticed a lump in his
throat. “Halfway through an episode
during a marathon, I saw it,” Ryan reported.
“I stopped the TV, rewound it, watched it again. [I] watched a few more
episodes...” Ryan believed that it was
something about which El Moussa needed to see a doctor. She decided to email the show’s producers. She struggled about how to share her
concerns; she didn’t want to sound like “a crazy fan.”
“We got the email and I had a bad feeling about it, and
just made the first doctor's appointment we could," El Moussa
recounted. Subsequent tests revealed
that El Moussa had thyroid cancer. The
cancer had even spread to his lymph nodes.
His doctors ordered thyroid radioactive iodine therapy.
Two years after his initial diagnosis, El Moussa’s cancer
is in remission. On November 23, 2015,
he appeared on the television show, The Doctors, where he was asked to share
his experience with thyroid cancer and how it came to be diagnosed. After he told the audience about his
experience, the hosts of The Doctors brought Ryan onto the set. El Moussa had never met her before that time. El Moussa and his wife Christina tearfully
but cheerfully embraced Ryan, thanking her for her timely assistance.
“If it wasn't for TV or her noticing this huge lump on my
neck, I would still be moving forward with my life with cancer in my body and
never doing anything about it,” El Moussa said. *
Another diagnosis has come “from afar” concerning EACH of
us. God has revealed in His Word that
“all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Don’t be deceived; His diagnosis is accurate
and sin is deadly (Romans 6:23).
But the Great Physician loves each of us very much. He loves us so much that He has provided a
Remedy for our sin problem. That Remedy
came at a great cost. “For God so loved
the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
God has promised to save those who place their faith and
trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in repentance (Acts
17:30-31), confess Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of their sins (Acts 2:38). He will continue to cleanse from sin those
who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7).
The promise of salvation and eternal life through Christ
is "to you and to your children, and to all who are AFAR OFF, as many as
the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39).
He’s calling each of us through the Good News (the Gospel) of Jesus (2
Thessalonians 2:14). In Christ Jesus,
those who are “far off” are brought “near” to God through the blood of Jesus
(Ephesians 2:13).
Won’t YOU answer His call through your trusting
obedience?
* “HGTV's Tarek El Moussa Meets the Live-Saving Fan Who
Spotted His Cancer on TV and Urged Him to See a Doctor” by Lindsay Kimble, www.people.com
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