What brings us to better health?
Do we understand that our bodies are no longer our own… if we’ve truly see them as the temple of the Holy Spirit?
Should we then be listening to His advice concerning our physical and mental disciplines / exercise / diet / and rest times? Have you ever just sat down and asked Him about those areas?
If we’re honest with ourselves I think we must acknowledge His nudging in these areas. Can we at least admit that we need to take these areas seriously?
Do think He’d be concerned about it?
“My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.”
Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV
What ‘words’ do you think Solomon is writing about? Just the written down scriptures? What is the Spirit of God referring to? Do you think it could also include the ‘words’ the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart?
We’re literally now under attack in so many ways upon our health. Frequencies. Improper foods. Bad air and water. There are so many ways the enemy is plotting to kill or diminish the lives of the God created human species. Now the enemy especially focuses on those that are redeemed and house the very Spirit of God within them. We must get better at listening to Him, and genuinely asking Him questions … in all areas of our lives.
Can we recognize the enemy’s devices working in our lives? I definitely need Him to show / tell me those things.
Especially now as my age increases and my body is no longer the young machine it use to be, and is definitely feeling the ‘mileage’ of this life… I am brought back to proper … disciplines of health daily.
Unfortunately most of the things that the corporate BIG medicine espoused as ‘good’ for the body and health are now being found to be wrong and actually very detrimental to one’s health. Big pharma is not your friend.
Big medicine is more about treating symptoms now rather than working to heal the causes of the problems. “Just take this pill / drug.” Seems to be their answer to everything.
Now why is our health really such an important issue in the scheme of things?
1. Our health determines what we actually can do … with any assignments He might give us. Thus our bad health could limit what He wants to do with us.
2. Making it to His finish line that He has for us … will require more and more obedience to His specific individual instructions to each one of us.
3. Eternal kingdom rewards will be from our ability to listen to Him and obey Him … now.
4. To be healthy enough to really be there for our family and their needs.
Now I want to turn to the issue of healing in the sense of health crises that are … unavoidable and not our fault. Like cancer and other fatal diseases.
This is where I personally turn to my commitment to Him. Terminally committed to Christ. No matter what ‘state’ I’m in … I will serve Him to my last breath and ounce of life in this mortal body.
Jesus WILL heal me.
Granted it’s the perspective that we have difficulty with. His perspective includes His ability to see His goal, and eternal plan for each one of us. So ultimately He will HEAL everyone of His from an eternal point of view.
But we currently exist in this timeframe, and are immersed in this dimension of feelings, and connections. Loss to us here can be truly devastating in many ways.
Faith and trust can be tested beyond what we understand or think we can take or even fathom. My small limited understanding of time which He has given me … and His Words to me .. have helped me begin to see things .. differently and have calmed many of my fears of … loss. Some of my personal ‘pearls’ of understanding regarding these issues have been woven into the novels I’ve written with Him.
This is where the deep abiding intimacy with Him is so important and needed. To be able to be comforted by the Holy Spirit when it’s most needed. When the attack is big and the difficulty is extreme, .. it often requires close members to be a ‘help’ and the true bodily manifestation of Jesus to that individual and immediate family. For the prayers need to be increased around the entire family under siege.
Healing IS His heart.
This I know from knowing Him more and more.
But the scope of healing through His eyes is much different than my own. This is where my personal commitment and faith on my part are required. To trust Him … when it seems “hopeless” in the here and now.
I’m reminded of Hebrews 11.
Especially these verses.
“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”
Hebrews 11:13-16 ESV
My perspective has become that my REAL ‘home’ is with Him … in His Kingdom.
…and that the thing that I really desire to hear Him say … at the moment I’m there with Him .. in heaven is …
“Well done my friend.”
selah