IS IT WELL WITH YOU?
Verse for Today
2 Kings 4:26 - Is it well with you? Is it well with your spouse? Is it well with the child?
When we go to the Lord with intimate prayer requests, we are often confronted with introspective question about our needs. Its often related to the intensity of our needs. Here a Shunamite woman is confronted with such an intimate question by the prophet about her deep needs. It covers herself, her spouse and child. The question concerns the true nature of the needs that are prime in her heart.
Wellness and wholesome health is related to six realms such as physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual wellbeing. Humans need to be well in all of these realms. We need to be aware of our different needs at different levels of life. These realms are related to each other and affect each other. So wellness has to touch upon all these areas of human life. We have to do what we can to remain heathy and well. But we should not forget that spiritual health is most important and that without spiritual health, all other aspects of health do not have any eternal value.
We need to regularly ask ourselves questions about how healthy we are in the six realms of well-being. We must also enquire about the well-being of our spouses and children and other members of the family. Wherever there are lapses and shortfalls, we should prayerfully help rebuild. We must thus be builders and rebuilders of our entire family.
This demands an ongoing program of evaluation of all six aspects of our health and that of the members of our families. We must realize that remedial measures may be taken as appropriately at the earliest time to bring in changes on the basis of intensive prayer. It must be based on the Word of God. As much as possible, it may be done mutually so that our eyes will be open to the reality of the need for the rebuilding of our attitude, behavior and the sense of need for change in us and other members of our families.
Psalms 144:12- That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughter may be as pillars, sculptured in palace style.
Thought for Today
May our families be places where we strengthen each other up through full spiritual rebuilding for sustained wholesome spiritual wellbeing!
Prayer for Today
O Lord! Help me today to evaluate the spiritual wellbeing of my family so as to rebuild us for sustained spiritually and develop emotional, social and physical health for Your glory! Amen!!
