Heart Like Medicine

12-07-09

Proverbs 17:22
Designed for the sick medicine provides the cure the body needs to combat sickness. There are many types of medicine, some target pain, some viruses, some bacteria, some regulate the body and some assist the organs when malfunctioning. Not overly concerned with the causes of sickness, medicine target attacks that drains life of its health. The aim is to bring the body to a healthy and safe condition.

Proverbs tells us of a condition of the heart that functions just like medicine. This condition is a merry heart. When merriness combines with the heart it produces more than a good feeling. The combination produces a substance that confronts the harmful conditions of the body, treats the sickness and uplifts the body to a condition of good health.

A merry heart performs like medicine improving the quality of health and releasing the body form the harmful conditions. The quality of the heart is intricately connected to the quality of health. To have a merry heart is to have the best doctor’s prescription. Exactly how the heart uses cheerfulness and liveliness to treat sickness is uncertain. But what is certain is the heart’s ability to use merriness as a substance to address and overcome bad health. Good health begins in the heart.

Lord thank You that I have a heart like medicine. It cures and prevents harm. It produces joy and laughter that’s picked up by others. Thank You.