Healthy And Strong

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and run away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones. Proverbs 3:5-8

Healing will come when we can let go of what we know about our situation and trust God with what we don’t know. When we can put aside the small vision we have or our circumstances and allow God’s bigger view to soak into our thoughts, we will have healing for our body and strength for our bones. Only God knows all that He is doing in our lives and only God knows how He will accomplish His plans for us. We worry because we have such a small box of knowledge to base all of our feelings on. When we take what we know, which is very little, it doesn’t give God much of a chance, in our minds. So we doubt Him and the ability for Him to answer our prayers. We worry and we start to panic. The panic causes our minds to work overtime trying to think up ways we will “help” God fix our situation. Our peace is lost somewhere in the middle of all the thinking and worrying and so we are miserable. How much better for our brains and our hearts if we would just let God be in control? If, for once, we could let go and live our lives fully dependent on Him? If we could just live daily what’s in front of us while we let God take care of the the future? Today, let’s take responsibility for what we can control and leave the rest in God’s hands. We might all find ourselves healthier, happier and stronger.