The Best Medicine

UV 1410/10,000 The Best Medicine
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4 v 22
The wisdom of God is hidden in the Word. When we search diligently and find it, it will be health to our whole bodies, spirits and minds. It will bring health and strength to all our internal organs and even our bones. Our spiritual blindness and callousness will be replaced by a greater sensitivity to the things of eternal value. The Word will bring both health and cure to us. The anointing released on us as we meditate and apply the Word is the Balm of Gilead that calms our fears, binds our wounds and heals our diseases. This is the reason the same verb “apply” is used for both ointment and the Word of God. We just got to rub it like divine ointment on our bodies, minds and spirits and it will have a deep effect on our lives. Our Word view will affect and transform our world view.

Every believer is expected to be an Ezra, the priest of Israel who gave priority to the Word. About Ezra it is written that he prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, to do it and to teach it to Israel. Unlike while reading other books, we need to prepare our hearts to seek the Word by invoking the help of the Holy Spirit so that it is interpreted to us accurately and according to our need. We need to commit in our hearts to take what we learn at the feet of Jesus and apply it in our real life situations and to teach it to others so that they too are similarly blessed. Ezra drew statutes and judgements from the Word. It implies that we need to study the Word and crystallise principles and concepts from it. We should then go out into the world and live by these principles and apply the concepts to make sense of the reality of life. For the past 1410 days or more I have committed to studying the Word, analysing it , applying it and communicating the principles of life, management and leadership. It is my testimony that it has been a source of great strength, blessing and power. So much so, I have not been affected by even a minor infection during this period, testifying to the truth of the Word that it is health for our bodies, spirits and minds. The Word is holistic, healthy and wholesome. It is health-preserving, health -enhancing and health- producing. It is a powerful spiritual anti-virus. It kills everything in us that is anti-life and augments everything pro-life.

The Word will keep our feet from evil. We should be like horses that have covers placed over their eyes so that they cannot look to the right or left but only straight ahead. We will be established in all our ways and nothing can shake us. It will help us keep our heart with all diligence by shaping and correcting our attitudes. The Word says that out of the heart or out of the attitudes and emotions are the critical issues of life. It will keep us focussed on the priorities of life. John Maxwell writes that the Word is “a guide, a guard and a gauge.” It is a gauge as it helps us examine and evaluate our lives and take steps for self –correction. It is also a goad to prompt us to seek to excel for the glory of God. For the Word to work in our lives, we need to implement three connected processes: Study, apply, communicate. As Maxwell writes of Ezra, we should “learn it, live it and loan it.”
Prateep V Philip