A Note From Tom: June 17th, 2011
Hey, everyone!
Hope your heart is as warm and sunny as today is going to be! Here’s your local forecast! If your heart matches this weather, you’re gonna have a good day! Check it…
Tonight: Mostly clear & pleasant… Friday: Warm once again…”
If you start out your day praising Jesus and your heart is clear, pleasant, and warm, how could it not be a good day? (I remember once on the morning news, the weather guy said, “Today’s gonna be hot and unstable…” and the traffic guy piped in, “That sounds like my first wife!”
Just a reminder…remember when the temperatures rise, you need to drink lots of water. For optimal health, you should drink eight full glasses of water a day…
Wait a second…hold on…
This news flash just in... Now they’re saying you actually DON’T have to drink eight glasses of water every day!
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a kidney specialist at the Univ. of Penn. says in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. that there is no health benefit from drinking eight daily glasses of water! No more clug-a-lugging and sloshing around all day!
Dr. Goldfarb also says that drinking excessive water doesn’t help your kidneys filter out toxins from your system. “In fact, drinking large amounts of water surprisingly tends to reduce the kidney's ability to function as a filter. It's a subtle decline, but definite."
It doesn’t help your skin either, he says. Apparently, “the human body is already 60 percent water. So, if you take a 200-pound man, he's 120 pounds of water. Adding a few extra glasses of water each day “is such a tiny part of what's in the body, it's very unlikely that one's getting any benefit.’ "
Wow! Where’d all that antiquated aqua-advice come from if “it ain’t necessarily so”?
"Nobody really knows," says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb…
How much other stuff’s out there that I’ve been believing all my life? Maybe it’s not true that your eyes will stay that way if you cross ‘em too much! …That cracking your knuckles DOESN’T cause arthritis? …What if you don’t lose 80% of your body heat through your head?
What if you don’t have to have a “quiet time” in the morning?
Since I accepted Jesus, I’ve always heard that one! You’re supposed to get up earlier than anyone, open the Bible, and have time with Jesus. What if they just made that one up too? Can I really just get up at the last minute, eat my Golden Grahams, and watch Sports Center, and hit the door? “Have you got a verse for that quiet time thing?”
Maybe there’s not one specific one that says it like that, but I do have some! Check this…
“In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly…” –Psalm 5.2
“But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love…” –Psalm 59.16
“The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy!” –Pslam 65.8
“I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you..” –Psalm 88.13
“I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning…” –Psalm 130.6
There are bunches more, but here’s the clincher…
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” –Mark 1.35
Proverbs 4 says to “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it are the springs of life!” There’s nothing more important than taking care of your heart and falling in love with Jesus every day! As George Muller said, “My most important duty before God is to get my heart in a happy state before Him!” And he had a LOT of duties!
So go ahead! Get up! Open the Scriptures! Look for reasons to praise Jesus in what you read! Ask Him to show you ways He loves you! Praise Him and tell Him you love Him! Don’t stop ‘til you ARE in love with Him and your heart IS in a happy state!
I also drink coffee during this time.
It’s how I get my eight glasses of water for the day.