Proverbs
says -
“A merry heart does well like a medicine,
but a broken spirit dries the bones..”
Proverbs 17:22
How amazing is the wisdom of the scriptures!
The wet part of our bones is of curse our
bone marrow. The bone morrow produces disease
fighting white blood cells, which are the
most essential part of our immune system.
We can therefore paraphrase the proverb:-
“A merry heart does well like a medicine
but a broken spirit dries the bones.”
“As a merry heart does well like a
medicine but a broken spirit compromises and
represses the immune system.”
While doctors can prescribe medicines to
increase blood cell production and in severe
cases give a bone marrow transplant, Jesus
can heal our broken hearts.
“ The spirit of the Lord is upon me for
the Lord has anointed me to heal the broken
hearted” (Isaiah 61.1)
Jesus came to heal the broken hearts of this
world – yours and mine included Hearts
that are defeated by grief sorrow bereavement
and disappointment are healed when we turn to
God our Father, through Jesus, and allow his
love into those areas which human love did
not reach.
We have found in praying for cancer patients
that when we pray healing into the broken
heart of the person with the cancer, there
have been tremendous results. This is not of
course to say that all cases of cancer have
their roots in the broken heart but many do.
When we recognize and admit where our hearts
have been broken we can open our hearts for
God to heal them.
