Sabotaging Our Health

Proverbs 3:7-8 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

You feel a cold coming on, but you keep pushing yourself at work. But the longer you push, the more sick you become. Pretty soon you find yourself with a fever and bronchitis has set in.
 
Now you have to spend several days in bed where if you had taken care of yourself you may have gotten away with only losing a day.
 
You’ve just undergone an out-patient procedure on your arm. The doctor told you that you would need to rest your arm and not lift it above your heart level. You’re provided with a sling, also, and they send you home with your promise to do exactly as the doctor advised.
 
But no sooner do you walk in your door at home you take off the sling and continue business as usual even though you’re in a great deal of pain. Now, instead of your surgery healing, you find the arm throbbing and not able to do normal activities; whereas, if you’d used your sling your arm may have had the chance to heal properly.
 
And lastly, the worst of all – You find a lump and decide to just ignore it instead of having it checked out. Finally you do go in only to have tests confirm what you now fear. You have cancer and it’s spread because it didn’t receive treatment sooner and now you may find your life in danger.
 
These are just a few examples of how we can sabotage our health. Our bodies talk to us every day. Sometimes it speaks in whispers, but other times it shouts at us from behind a locked door in your mind. You must unlock the door, because our healing needs to be addressed. Otherwise, we may find ourselves unable to walk out the door when we want to.
 
Whywesuffer.com lists some other ways that we sabotage our health in the article, “8 Ways We Sabotage Physical Health,” such as using a disease to connect with others and as a way to be a victim of neglectful people.
 
Whether we know it or not, we may be the ones are ruining our own efforts at finding wellness. Just as the Bible verse above says, sometimes we try to figure out what brings good health by our own methods instead of asking God to show us what to do. When we do this, it can bring health to your body instead of our efforts being sabotaged.

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