Title What should I keep?
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♡♥♡ What will you protect? / Proverbs 4:20-27
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A healthy life is the wish of all mankind. So, each country and people have their own folk remedies, and it was the cause of the early development of human medicine. In particular, modern people pay special attention to their health. Many people say, 'I don't want to live long, I want to live healthy while I live.' Therefore, health foods are appearing countless times, and people are looking for good medicines regardless of oriental or western medicine.
However, there is one thing I am not thinking about. You seem to be forgetting where health starts. Although they are looking for all kinds of good medicine and food, people are getting more unstable due to the rapidly changing environment. As a result, diseases of modern people that did not exist before are also created, making people more unhealthy.
A recent issue of the British science magazine New Science drew attention by publishing a report stating that “people living in bright, warm sunlight are much healthier than people living under gray skies.”
In this report, health conditions surveyed in France are included as a sample. Residents of Calais, a northern part of France where sunlight is scarce, were three times more likely to develop cancer of the digestive system or cirrhosis than those living in the southern Pyrenees. Not only that, but the number of suicides was also much higher among those without sunlight.
The reason is that when the environment is dark, people's hearts also become dark. So, verse 23 says, “Guard your heart above all else. For it is the source of life.”
how many years ago? I once read a report in the newspaper on 'health and life expectancy by occupation'. The number one priority for a healthy and long-lived person was a religious person, and last place was an announcer among journalists and broadcasters. The difference is the difference between a relaxed mind and a sense of urgency.
Not long ago, a research team from Duke University in the United States published a research report in the summer issue of the International Journal of Psychiatry. The study investigated the relationship between church activity and blood pressure. The research team investigated the relationship between religious activity and blood pressure in 2,391 people aged 65 and over three times from 1986 to 1993 in North Carolina, where there are many Christians.
As a result, those who did not engage in religious activities at least once a week had a 40% higher risk of heart attack if they had a minimum blood pressure of 90 or higher, which is a blood pressure level that is more likely to cause a heart attack or a heart attack.
Let's read verses 20-22 of the text. “My son, pay attention to my words and give ear to what I say. Do not let it depart from your eyes; keep it in your heart. For it is life to those who find it, and health to all their flesh.” What is the father saying to his son here? Verse 8 (Korean King James Version). “Increase your wisdom. Then it will exalt you. When you embrace wisdom, it will bring you honor.” The wisdom spoken of in this verse is “to fear God.” In other words, having a heart that fears God and keeping it is the way to physical health and life.
The management of a person's heart is the basis for protecting the life of the body and spirit.
In the text, we earnestly urge our son to guard the heart that contains wisdom. He said that the reason for keeping this is because it is the source of life as well as physical health. Then, what kind of mind management should we keep?
Let's look at 2 Corinthians 4:6-7. “The same God who said, “Out of darkness shall shine light,” has shone in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We have this treasure in vessels of earth, so that it may be known that the exceeding greatness of power belongs to God and not to us.”
God has put in our hearts the light of knowing the glory of God through Jesus Christ. This is life. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” In John 10:10, “I have come to have life. and that you may have it more abundantly.” Christ Jesus, the source of this life, is in our hearts.
In this way, our hearts contain the most precious and precious Jesus Christ in the world, that is, the true life. The heart we must protect is the heart that contains the true life. And we must leave this heart to the Holy Spirit to manage. Galatians 5:25 says, “If we live in the Spirit, we must also walk in the Spirit.” Our job is to entrust the management of our hearts so that the Holy Spirit who dwells within us manages all things and life.
How do we entrust our mind management?
Pastor Booth, who had been staring at the ceiling for a while, humbly said these words.
“I will tell you the secret. God owns all of me. There are many better people in this world than me. There were many people who were given good opportunities. However, many did not allow God to fully own everything. I just let God own every part of me.”
Like Pastor William Booth's answer, to entrust everything to God to own it is to entrust the management of the heart.
To leave it to God to own it means that everything I have now belongs to God, and I become the person who takes charge of it. Now, everything including my life belongs to God, and if I am a steward, isn't it natural to use everything according to God's will? This is the core of the Christian life that is emphasized in the Old and New Testaments.
Nevertheless, the saints think that everything they have is their own, and they are worried, anxious, and anxious because they are the managers. So, in the text, we are to entrust this management of the mind. Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your works to the Lord. Then your management will come to fruition.”
Let's all entrust the management of our hearts to the Lord and keep this heart well. Then you will achieve a beautiful life that leaves no regrets.