N.A.D.

The delicious fruit cake mixture lay in the big yellow bowl on my kitchen table.
Cherries, nuts, mixed fruit, pineapple, apricots combined as I anticipated a luscious cake for our son’s 21^st birthday. As my husband sat at the opposite end of the table, he coaxed me into making a cup of tea before filling the cake tins for the oven. I prepared a pot of tea, which I poured into tea cups. As I lowered the cup and saucer to the table, I accidentally flicked the edge of a tin of pins, used earlier that morning for dressmaking. Up flipped the tin and the pins spilled into the yummy cake mixture. It was one of those ‘Don’t know how it happened-but-it-did situations, as I groaned: ‘Oh no, what will I do?’ and I began to remove the pins from the fruity mixture. 
But how certain were we that all the pins were extracted. ‘What if there is one pin still in the mixture?’ I moaned 
‘How dangerous for someone to eat a slice of cake containing one pin? It was a risk. 
I’ll have to throw out the whole mixture.’ And I had doubled the recipe to ensure sufficient for all at the party.
My husband smiled and calmly sipped his tea. ‘How could he be so casual?’ I thought.
Then, ‘Here’s an idea,' he said, and I slumped on the chair waiting for any suggestion. ‘You cook the cakes, dear, which I will take to the hospital for the radiologist to X-ray them. We will know then if it is safe to eat the cakes.'
Imagine the amusement of the X-ray staff next morning when at their call of ‘Next patient please’ my doctor-husband walked in with two large fruit cakes for X-ray. The staff laughed heartily.
We received the official report and X-ray films from the radiologist, who assured us that there was a homogeneous mixture, no foreign bodies were present, and that the texture looked deliciously fruity. He also sent greetings for an enjoyable party, and N.A.D. – the medical term for’ Nothing abnormal detected.’  And our son retains that unusual report.
But there is One greater than an X-ray machine, Who reminds us in the bible , ‘You know our inward thoughts.’ (Psalm 139) ‘A man looks on the outward appearance, God sees (looks into) the heart, ‘ my inner self, the real me. He is far more perceptive than an X-ray machine, and knows my secret thoughts.
You can hide from your friends, but you cannot hide from God.
When we are right with God through confession (agreeing with God that SIN is sin), repentance, (changing our mind about sin and asking God’s forgiveness), and faith (knowing that what God says is true), will He say of you, 

N.A.D. NOTHING ABNORMAL DETECTED.