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Feeling Sick

It is amazing how your body just shuts down when it is telling you that it needs rest.  Your head aches, your throat hurts, your whole body feels like it was hit by a mac truck…  It always seems to come at a time when you are so busy and moving so fast that you just don’t have time to be sick.  MAYBE that is a hint.  Maybe your body is working so hard other places, it doesn’t have a chance to create antibodies.  Maybe you aren’t sleeping well enough, or pushing yourself and your brain just a little too hard. 

What usually happens to me is that a big event comes up and my KIDS get sick.  It almost never fails that they end up throwing up, getting a fever, having a bad reaction to a vaccine, something crazy right when I can’t deal with them being sick.  It goes back to the timing post from earlier… 

We do need to keep our bodies healthy, we all know that our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit…  It is found in 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20 “Do you not know that you body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own; you were bought at a price.  Therefore honor God with your body.” 

I could go on and on about how we should not do drugs or abuse alcohol etc…  but we have to think of it in a simpler way.  KISS…  Keep It Simple Stupid…

If I don’t take care of my body daily, then I will not be prepared to go out and do what the Lord has commanded me, like she the gospel, or help the needy.  If I don’t take care of my body, is that me being selfish?  Am I trying too hard to get people to look at me and tell me- hey – she is awesome.   If I push myself beyond my limits, I don’t glorify God in what I am doing, I don’t show God’s love because I can’t feel love myself because I am too exhausted and not fully 100% there. 

God made our bodies be able to tell us when it needs to rest and recuperate.  We need to be in touch with our physical well being so that we can be in touch with our spiritual well being.  When we feel good, we are able to glorify God better. 

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