01/13/2023
Scripture Medication For Health and Wellness Day 3
A person’s emotions affect his physical condition, as it is well known today. A heart at peace (or, “a mind of health,” i.e., a healthy disposition) helps produce a healthy body, but envy, a greedy and envious desire to have or achieve what one sees in others, produces adverse effects physically. A sound heart is the life of the flesh. A healthy state of the blood, and a proper circulation of that stream of life is the grand cause in the hand of the God of health and longevity. If the heart be diseased, life is shortened and cannot continue very long.
Day 3. A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body, jealousy is like cancer in the bones. – Proverbs 14:30
Lets listen to Jesus talk about Good Hearts.
Matthew 13:1–23 (NIV84)
The Parable of the Sower
13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 He who has ears, let him hear.”
10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11 He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Listen to Jesus explain the four types of soil. Each soil has its own heart BECAUSE AS THE SOIL IS SO IS OUR HEART (see verse 19 below).
18 “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19 When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21 But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22 The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. 23 But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
The seed of God’s Word does not bounce off the hard surface of your heart. Neither does it temporarily flourish in the shallow soil of emotion, only to shrivel under adversity. Nor is it divided by its competing desires and thus strangled. Rather, your heart should be a heart that allows God’s Word to take deep root within it. It then produces a harvest of good character: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5:22, 23). This is followed by a bounty of good works as the heart is remade by Jesus Christ (cf. Ephesians 2:10).
This great parable gives us insight into what goes on with those who sit under the Word. There is no doubt as to what true hearing is—it is a heart that hears and does God’s Word.
WE MUST ALL EXPERIENCE A CHANGE OF HEART!!!
Another way to know God and his healing power is by his regenerating grace. God not only counts his people as good, watches over them for good, and brings them home for good—God also makes them good through the teachings of Jesus (The Word) and The Holy Spirit (The Counsler).
If there is one thing to be learn from the first twenty-three chapters of Jeremiah, it is that God’s people are not very good. In those days, their problem was that they did not have good hearts. In fact, they had “stubborn and rebellious hearts” (5:23). They followed “the stubbornness of their evil hearts” (3:17; cf. 11:8). Jeremiah was in such despair about his own heart that he cried out, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (17:9).
If you have ever looked into the depths of your own heart, you know it is just as stubborn, rebellious, evil, and deceitful as Jeremiah’s was. And a bad heart is like a basket of rotten apples. Once it is spoiled, it will not get ripe again on its own. Who can cure the heart? Who can even understand it?
God understands the human heart. And he not only understands it, he can cure it. This is the promise of his regenerating grace: “6 My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. 7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart”(Jer 24:6-7). This promise of a new heart was not just for the exiles in Babylon. It is for everyone who turns to God in faith and repentance now.
Returning wholeheartedly to God requires more than just a change of heart. So if you have not had one yet, may I suggest that you undergo a heart transplant? The human heart can ONLY BE FIXED with a spiritual heart transplant.
I can also recommend a good surgeon. The God who made your heart in the first place specializes in heart transplants. There is a donor already lined up for you—the Lord Jesus Christ. When Jesus gives you his heart, you will come to know God in the most intimate way. Your new heart is ready. All you need to do is ask Jesus for It and BE HEALED FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY. All the Best of Life, Pastor Dr. Arris D. Wheaton Sr.
