Spiritual Lessons from The Radiology Room

I am currently on a 36 day journey to the Forsyth Regional Cancer Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Every morning, Mon-Fri. I have a radiation treatment. The treatments are to kill out a recurrence of cancer in the area where my cancerous prostate was removed a little over five years ago.
Being a curious person I asked, what is radiation? The National Cancer Institute says “Radiation therapy is the use of a certain type of energy (called ionizing radiation) to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy injures or destroys cells in the area being treated (the “target tissue”) by damaging their genetic material, making it impossible for these cells to continue to grow and divide. Although radiation damages both cancer cells and normal cells, most normal cells can recover from the effects of radiation and function properly. The goal of radiation therapy is to damage as many cancer cells as possible, while limiting harm to nearby healthy tissue.” My radiologist called the radiation, “pockets of energy.” The pockets of energy are externally beamed into the treatment area.
Cancer cells are unhealthy cells that divide and multiply faster than normal healthy cells. Radiation destroys cells in the area being treated. The unhealthy cells, cancer cells, are unable to recover; the healthy cells recover. The desired outcome is for the radiation to kill out the cancer cells that would otherwise continue to divide and multiply.
Learning how radiation works in destroying cancer cells I thought of a spiritual parallel. All of us are born with a cancer called “sin”. Unless we are set free from sin it spreads in our life like a fast growing cancer, tearing down and destroying our life. There is a remedy! I Peter 2:24 says, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” Jesus Christ is our radiologist through the Holy Spirit he beams into our sinful lives pockets of divine energy cleansing us from all sin.
Every morning I lay on the table surrendered to the radiation machine. The arms of the machine rotate around me beaming in pockets of radiation energy to destroy unhealthy cancer cells. Another spiritual parallel. Daily I must lay myself down surrendering my will to God's will. As I stay surrendered He perpetually beams in the divine energy of His Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8 says, “...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.” The greek word for power in Acts 1:8 literally means divine energy. My daily prayer is, “God I surrender myself to you, give me your divine energy.” His divine energy is the antidote for our sin. Set free from sin by God's power I can live a life free from sin's destruction. I can live a life bringing glory to God.