What Is Eating You?

It’s not just what you eat that destroys your health — it’s what eats you! You can have the best health plan around — eat fresh, healthy, organic, and in proper portions — but if you’re resentful against someone in your life or worry about tomorrow, your health will suffer.

Worry is like a poison or a fire. It burns you up inside. I’ll never forget watching an old episode of “Columbo” when Johnny Cash played the bad guy. When he finally got caught, he said, “I’m so glad I got caught, because the guilt was killing me.”

I can’t tell you how many reports I’ve read of doctors who said that most people could leave the hospital today if they could get rid of their worries, guilt, and resentment.

We deal with all sorts of worries in our lives, but many of them revolve around these five areas. We worry:

We’ll be left alone.
We won’t know what to do in the future.
We won’t have what we need in the future.
We will be hurt by something or someone in the future.
We won’t have the strength to survive in the future.

But there’s good news: You don’t have to worry. Worry is optional misery! You have many things that impact your health that you cannot control. But you can control the amount you worry!

Proverbs 14:30 says that a heart at peace is a healthy heart: “A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones”

– Adapted from Rick Warren