WORD ALIVE … Bringing the relevance of God’s Word to our everyday life. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIGHTEOUS THOUGHT BREEDS GOOD HEALTH (Vol 1; No 87) When you think good thoughts about people you are not only obeying Biblical injunction, but you are also doing yourself a lot of good. Righteous thoughts bring health to your body and soundness to the totality of your being. What you think about others affects your physical, mental and spiritual health in many ways. Medical Science tells us that resentment, hatred, grudge, ill will, jealousy, indifference etc are attitudes which can produce ill-health. This ill health if not checked may lead to a general deterioration of the body and leanness of the soul. Commenting on the effect of unhealthy thoughts in our life, Wesley Duewel said, “Nothing will drain away God’s blessing, power and anointing from your life more rapidly than unkind thoughts of others. Unloving words, gossip, laughter at the expense of others, and negative talking cuts your power and the sweetness of God’s presence. Anything contrary to the tender love of the Holy Spirit is devastating to spiritual power.” You attract what you continually think about. Bad thoughts against someone may continue to dry your bones and weigh down your spirit, which may lead to the emaciation of the body, and this in some cases may precipitate very serious and complicated ailments. Unhealthy thoughts shorten one’s life by producing deadly enzymes that contribute to a host of physical ailments. It is good to get any unhealthy thought out of one’s mind. The person in question may not even know that you are nursing a grudge against him, but you will be dying gradually as you continue to get embittered. There is always a high cost for harbouring hatred. And always mark this: your anger or ill-will will destroy you first before it destroys anyone else. All unhealthy thoughts are soul destroying and health wrecking. What really counts is not what happens to you but what happens in you. Betrayal is something others do to you; bitterness is something you do to yourself. As long as you are still in this world people will hurt you in one way or the other. So “… watch out that no … bitterness grows up …” (Hebrews 12:15 NLT) within you. Hatred breeds miserable life. If you want to be depressed and dejected, hate somebody. Forgiveness is an antidote to hatred. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner is you. When you forgive, you open the door of the prison where you are both prisoner and jailor, setting yourself and the other person free. Forgiveness delivers the soul from the expense of anger, the high cost of hatred and the waste of energy. On the other hand an unforgiving heart does a great deal more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than the object on which it is poured. What happens in you is of greater consequence than what happens to you. If you want to travel far and fast in life, then travel without any entangling weight. Unpack all your envies, jealousies, unforgiving spirit, revenges, fears, worries and all other destructive negative emotions. If you want to live a long and fruitful life you have to forgive everyone everything every night before you go to bed. Forgiving those who have offended you is a key to a life of peace and serenity. Forgiveness may not change your past, but it will broaden your future. Don’t burn bridges in your relationship with others. In days to come you will be surprised how many times you have to cross over same river. By Destiny Musabi.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:22:37 +0000
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