Tim BarkerSeptember 19, 2022Comment

How to Keep Healthy

Tim BarkerSeptember 19, 2022Comment

- Avoid smoking and using tobacco products - Be physically active every day - Eat a heart-healthy diet - Maintain a healthy weight - Manage your blood pressure - Control your total cholesterol - Keep your blood sugar healthy According to the American Heart Association, these are the seven things that you should do to keep your physical heart healthy. The human heart weighs less than a pound (450g). It beats 100,000 times a day and over 2.5 billion times in the average lifetime. Your system of blood vessels – arteries, veins and capillaries – is over 60,000 miles long – enough to go around the world more than twice. This is not just an amazing spectacle; it is the ‘heart’ of human life. Without your heart your body would quickly cease to work. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the Western world. Jesus spoke a great deal about the heart. The heart is a metaphor for the inner life. The word Jesus used means the seat of the physical, spiritual and mental life. The heart is the centre and the source of the whole inner life – thinking, feeling, and willing. God is concerned, primarily, about your heart. He wants you to have a healthy heart. He said to Samuel, ‘The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart’ (1 Samuel 16:7). Even more important than a healthy physical heart is the condition of your spiritual heart. In the passages for today we see five key ways to keep your spiritual heart healthy.