Prayers For A Healthy YouSýnishorn

Unknown health issues can often plague our hearts and our minds more than the known ones. The what-ifs provide no boundaries or limitations, leaving our thoughts to wander deeply and freely in worry. Before we know it, we’ve diagnosed ourselves with a serious disease and are planning for the worst. We don’t want to succumb to this what-if anxiety every time we experience a very normal ache, pain, or abnormality. Have you ever asked yourself:

Is the lump cancerous or simply a swollen lymph node?

Is the pain in my chest heart disease, a heart attack, or one too many pieces of pizza?

Is my kidney inflamed, or is my appendix about to burst?

Wait, where is the appendix anyhow? And where are my kidneys?

In today’s world, with such easy access to all sorts of media, information, medical websites, forums, and even our friends’ and family’s health statuses, we have no lack of possible outcomes for any discomfort we may feel. They say that ignorance is bliss, and when it comes to unknown health issues, that may very well be the case. With the rise of health and illness information at our fingertips, too much knowledge may be contributing to our worry or even worsening our stress.

That is not to say you shouldn’t follow up with a trained medical professional if symptoms persist, but you should also be mindful that “for as he thinks within himself, so he is” (Proverbs 23:7).