Day 39 - 40 Days of JOY
Dr Jim Brown's TruNorth Devotional
40 Days of JOY
Day 39 | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOY AND HEALING
40 Days of JOY
Day 39 | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOY AND HEALING
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOY AND HEALING
Proverbs 17:22
“A happy heart is good medicine, and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” (AMP)
Proverbs is such a practical how-to-live book!
The Message version says it this way: “A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.”
The Readers Digest – created just a “few years” AFTER Proverbs (over 3000 years after) – said it this way, “Laughter, the Best Medicine!”
Let me ask… what makes you laugh? I know it’s not the news, but is it something?
It seems to me that laughter is in short supply today. People are grumpy, angry, tired, exhausted, worried, fearful, depressed, lonely, and a host of other negative emotions. And as the last half of this verse says, “gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.”
We all have to fight that tendency as we are bombarded daily – even without watching TV news – with negatives all around.
In the 1950s, Norman Cousins practically healed himself when the doctors at UCLA Medical Clinic diagnosed him with a disease with no cure. How did he heal himself? He laughed. He watched the Marx Brothers, Abbot and Costello, or anything he found funny. He found that a good 10 minutes of belly-laughing would allow him to sleep, pain free, for 2 hours straight, something he couldn’t do before this “laugh-therapy.” He lived for years after being healed this way. He wrote a book called “The Anatomy of an Illness.” It’s a great read.
My wife and I have some old radio programs we like to listen to and old TV shows we like to watch, which we find funny and make us laugh. I think doing that that keeps us healthier. Yes, things are difficult, but as this Proverb says, “A happy heart is good medicine, and a joyful mind causes healing.”
Prayer: LORD helps me find something that will help me laugh and have a merry heart. I know I’ll have to work at it, but I also know that this wise Scripture is for my benefit. Amen.
Proverbs 17:22
“A happy heart is good medicine, and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” (AMP)
Proverbs is such a practical how-to-live book!
The Message version says it this way: “A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.”
The Readers Digest – created just a “few years” AFTER Proverbs (over 3000 years after) – said it this way, “Laughter, the Best Medicine!”
Let me ask… what makes you laugh? I know it’s not the news, but is it something?
It seems to me that laughter is in short supply today. People are grumpy, angry, tired, exhausted, worried, fearful, depressed, lonely, and a host of other negative emotions. And as the last half of this verse says, “gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.”
We all have to fight that tendency as we are bombarded daily – even without watching TV news – with negatives all around.
In the 1950s, Norman Cousins practically healed himself when the doctors at UCLA Medical Clinic diagnosed him with a disease with no cure. How did he heal himself? He laughed. He watched the Marx Brothers, Abbot and Costello, or anything he found funny. He found that a good 10 minutes of belly-laughing would allow him to sleep, pain free, for 2 hours straight, something he couldn’t do before this “laugh-therapy.” He lived for years after being healed this way. He wrote a book called “The Anatomy of an Illness.” It’s a great read.
My wife and I have some old radio programs we like to listen to and old TV shows we like to watch, which we find funny and make us laugh. I think doing that that keeps us healthier. Yes, things are difficult, but as this Proverb says, “A happy heart is good medicine, and a joyful mind causes healing.”
Prayer: LORD helps me find something that will help me laugh and have a merry heart. I know I’ll have to work at it, but I also know that this wise Scripture is for my benefit. Amen.