February 19, 2026 -- Proverbs 3:5-8 -- Health in the deepest part of your body

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Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
It will be healing to your flesh
and refreshment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:5-8 ESV
 
Choose to obey to the LORD—and look at the result, it will be healing for your flesh and refreshment to your bones. The word “flesh” in the Hebrew language is “navel”. So, the implication is that in the deepest part of who you are, open-hearted submission to God heals your inward parts. In the original language the word “bone” is marrow. We know today that the marrow produces blood cells for the body. If the bones are sound, health flows to all the body.
 
How is such healing experienced in the life of the believer? It is by exercising trust in the LORD—which is so counter-cultural. There are so many forces, social pressures, and human reasons given why this seems crazy. But the Bible, written by men as they were inspired by the Holy Spirit, reveals the purposes and work of God, our Creator. It makes sense that He Who made us, knows what is best for us in our in-most parts and for our life in community. Acknowledging God in our all ways includes confessing our sins when we are wandering far from Him or going our own way.
 
To turn from evil, is to turn away from the things we do which are contrary to God’s rules for living. Evil words, deeds, or actions will lead to death. Evil is contrary to God’s rules and ways. Our heavenly Father has instituted for us the path of life, to fight His holy ways is to fight against your own mental, spiritual, emotional, sexual, physical and social health.
 
It is such mercy and love that God our Father shows us, that when we recognize our sinful ways and our wicked deeds, we discover He has already provided the healing and refreshment of salvation. We confess our sins, all the wrong paths we’ve taken, and do so in the powerful Name of Jesus. As soon as we make our confessions, we learn our sin has been punished upon the Person of Jesus at the cross, and we receive His righteousness. We receive the credit of His perfect, never-having-sinned, life. God sees us as having the perfection of Jesus—which in turn leads us to desire to walk in greater health. 
 
God of the Publican,
Be merciful to me a sinner;
this I am by nature and practice,
this thy Word proclaims me to be,
this I hope I feel myself to be;
Yet thou hast not left me to despair,
for there is no ‘^peradventure’ in thy grace;
I have all the assurance I need that with thee is plenteous redemption.
In spite of the number and heinousness of my sins
thou hast given me a token for good;
The golden sceptre is held out,
and thou hast said ‘Touch it and live’.
May I encourage myself by a sense of thy all-sufficiency,
by faith in thy promises, by views of the experience of others.
To that dear refuge in which so many have sheltered
from every storm may I repair,
In that fountain always freely open for sin
may I be cleansed from every defilement.
Sin is that abominable thing which thy soul hates,
and this alone separates thee and me.
Thou canst not contradict the essential perfections of thy nature;
Thou canst not make me happy with thyself,
till thou hast made me holy like thyself.
O holy God, make me such a creature
as thou canst take pleasure in,
and such a being that I can take pleasure in thee.
May I consent to and delight in thy law
after the inner man,
never complain over the strictness of thy demands,
but mourn over my want of conformity to them;
never question thy commandments,
but esteem them to be right.
By thy Spirit within me
may my practice spring from principle, and
my dispositions be conformable with duty.
     Valley of Vision: MERCY, page 170
 
Peradventure: doubt or uncertainty
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