But where my wife and I were concerned , nothing mattered more at that point in time than to praise God for He had seen to it that the surgery was a complete success .
My wife also felt God speaking to her at that moment that He was a Perfect God who would not do things halfway .
We did not give it a thought how God would complete the job . We just kept praising Him for the successful surgery .
Exactly one month later on 18th . April , we were advised to send Marcus for another MRI scan to prepare him for radiation which was the next stage in his treatment . We will never forget that day nor the expression of the lady radiologist when she came out to meet with us after the scan was done .
The scan took about half an hour and during that time she had sent her nurse out twice to check with us whether our son had already undergone radiation . We were puzzled for it was with a view to the coming radiation that we had come for this scan . We did not know what to expect when we were ushered to a room to wait for the radiologist after the scan . Then she came in . The moment she saw us , she kept repeating excitedly , “ It is amazing . It has never happened before . The two tumour seedlings are totally gone !”
When we heard that , we simply just broke down and cried unashamedly with joy to our Lord . Our sovereign God had done a miracle on our son when we least expected it . We had by then been conditioned to receive bad news , but this time it did not come . The MRI machine and the doctor now could find no traces of the tumour seedlings .
Looking back , we know that God wanted to reveal to us His glory , to show us that it is He and He alone Who had healed our son . The glory was to be His alone . We learnt later that it was not necessary to have the scan done before
radiation . Had radiation been done before the scan and the scan showed no traces of the tumour seedlings , many would have attributed this to radiation . This was what the lady radiologist had thought when she sent out her nurse twice to check with us whether our son had already undergone radiation .
We have no doubts that God caused us to have the MRI scan done before radiation so that we and all others might know that it was He alone Who had healed our son , not radiation .
Kristin and I have since realized that God had put us through a refining fire to prepare us to be used by HIM . Being the Refiner , He did not give us more heat than we could take . We have since shared this testimony of the glory of God countless times in churches and meetings all over and we will continue to do so in fulfillment of Psalm 118:17 , John 9:3 and John 11:4 which were verses ( coincidentally ?) revealed to us at the time of our ordeal .
It has been a long journey
… Marcus is Now Married
God , You are good and Your mercy endures forever – this is what I will always sing and declare for my family .
Indeed , it has been a long journey for me and my wife with our son Marcus . At the age of twelve , he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour , the size of an egg and it had spread to the inner part of the brain . That was in March 1994 . Surgery could only remove the primary tumour but not the seedlings imbedded in the brain . We went through a very taxing time . Remarkably , God intervened miraculously by removing the seedlings without any chemotherapy or radiation .*
Since then , even though I have been going all over the country and even overseas to testify of this miracle of God , yet at the back of my mind was a lingering
10 ASIAN BEACON 48 # 1 December 2016 - January 2017