Healthy or Sick

As I get older, I try to pay closer attention to my body because it talks to me. It doesn’t use words, but the pain screams out with high volume. I work harder some days at being healthy than on other days. I had a dear friend who used to say: “You can eat right, and exercise daily and still get hit by a truck”.  I think my friend was making a defense against eating right and daily exercise.

I think there are multiple areas of my life that can be described as either healthy or sick. There is my relational health, my mental health, my financial health among others. Jesus uses the analogy of health to explain why He came. Check this out….

¹⁰ Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. ¹¹ But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such scum?”

¹² When Jesus heard this, he said, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.” ¹³ Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.” (Matthew 9:10-13 NLT)

I need the Lord to heal my sickness each day.

I need the Lord to diagnose my heart and mind.

I need the Lord to speak into my life with wise counsel and continue to immunize me against the temptations that I face daily.

I need the Lord every hour of every day. I want to live my life to honor Him. I want my spiritual life to be healthy and whole.  I obviously want other areas of my life to be healthy and whole too, but the priority is a healthy soul.

Pressing On!

Dwayne