Proverbs - Fear of the Lord and Health

Proverbs 10:27

 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days:

 but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

When we are more concerned about what God’s desires are for us than anyone else’s we are walking in the fear of the Lord.  The Lord tells us in this verse that when we are mastered by a concern to please the Lord only we will have prolonged days.  One angle of this promise is that the stresses and wear and tear of being controlled by the expectations of others or ourselves won’t be there wearing at our health and causing us to be on edge resulting in medical conditions brought on by such anxieties.

                        Another side of the fear of the Lord prolonging our days is that we won’t be making dangerous choices that have the potential for ending our lives early.  We won’t be in sexually promiscuous relationships that carry the threat of disease.  We won’t be taking in alcohol to the injury of our liver.  We won’t be controlled by food, starvation or gluttony, that could wreak havoc on our systems and torment the balance of our body.

                        If we want our days prolonged and not shortened, we need to seek to please the Lord in all we do and avoid being motivated by any other predominant relationship in our lives.