I just got home after having a sleep test done. I have known for years that I don’t sleep well but thought that was just the way I am. I never knew how much a body needs good healthy sleep to keep it functioning in a peak preformance. I know sleep is important for a body to help heal itself and to give you energy, but never really fully understood and still don’t, all the mechanics involved that a good night sleep gives to the body. As I sit here writing this, I still have little chunks of water-soluble paste falling from my beard and head from all the wires that were attached to me during the test. I was looking forward to this test, but I also was apprehensive. I know I needed to find out why my body was not functioning the way it should or use to, but also was concerned that the sleep test would be inconclusive. I did find out, I have a bad case of sleep apnea which I am sure is probably the root of most of health related issues I have been facing these last couple of years. Now that the sleep test is over, I am confident when I go back to my doctor’s for review that they well be able to make the necessary adjustments to get my health back to its peak performance.

I told you this to stress a point I want to make. God in His ultimate wisdom, gave some men and women the ability to know enormous amount of knowledge on how the body works. For those of us who don’t have that gift, we need to rely on these blessed doctors on how to take care of our bodies. God made us and wants us to treat our bodies like temples and that also means to fix them when they are in need of repair. We need to stay in prayer and seek guidance for the right doctor’s and also ask for healing. Yes, God could heal our bodies in a blink of an eye if He wishes to do so, but often times He uses sickness and health related issues as a learning curve or even to help someone else. Whatever God’s reason, we must learn to trust Him. There are groups (cults) in the world who don’t believe in doctors and rely solely on God to heal them. While I don’t disagree that God can heal anybody at anytime with any ailment, I don’t agree that they shouldn’t seek professional help when help is so enormously available. This is an example of what I was talking about in one of my previous posts about using our minds and making the right choices based on what God is telling us. God gave us these wonderful doctors and other professions to use to help us be and get the most out of this life. For us not to use them is not making the correct choices.

God is in everything. In everything, we need to seek God.