My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings."
Proverbs 4:20-23 NKJV
God's Word, continues to give us wisdom and the more we read it, we will have a choice to take hold of this wisdom for our own lives. Here, the word says, 'Pay attention.' How many times did we hear that when we were at school? Many, many times if you are anything like me. I have this habit of drifting off into my own kind of world, and I have to work hard to keep the focus.I am sure that I'm not the only one.
We need to listen and be willing to learn. As much as we think we do, we do not, know it all. There is always something new to learn with God. As we focus on the Word of God, we are given wisdom to live our lives in a way that is pleasing to Him; and one of these ways, is our health. We only have one heart and we need to take care of it. In fact, we need to guard it and protect it. Stress and heartache is a killer and we need to guard the heart from all of this.
Wisdom is the best medicine as it, safeguards us from life-threatening evils, if we are not careful our hearts can become contaminated. Jesus says in Mark 7:21: 'For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,' What's in the heart comes out of the mouth. David Jeremiah comments on this,
'Until Christ is on the throne of a person's life, he or she cannot have the kind of heart that will produce the right kinds of speech; one that is constantly readied and receptive towards God.'
Copyright The Jeremiah Study Bible.
If we want health to all our flesh, we need to start taking care of ourselves. Overwork, lack of sleep and being overweight are strong contenders to bad health. But, so is having ungodly thoughts, speaking foul stuff about people in gossip and criticism. It all has to go if we want to be healthy in our mind, will and emotions.
So therefore, is it time to pay attention and get fit?
Copyriight 2021 Grahame Howard
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave a message