What Sheep Oil and Chuck Norris Tell Us About Gratitude

➡ The text discusses the symbolism behind the shepherd’s practices in the 23rd Psalm, addressing the fear of sheep and the process of anointing their heads to protect them from tormenting insects. Comparatively, the process can be seen as reciprocated in humans – the “oil” being God’s protection and peace. It further explores a study that shows gratitude’s ability to improve physical and mental health, a state of mind achievable through a “gratitude school” perception on life. Even though life may not be perfect, it is essential to flex the mental gratitude muscle for better overall wellbeing. Lastly, it suggests considering one’s home as a “nursery for heaven” and focuses on the imperative of loving, moral, and amiable family attributes not being the sole determinants of their final destination in life.
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Um, Guy began his comment on the 23rd Psalm, and he, you know, Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, leads me beside still waters. He anoints my head with oil. We understand many of those. And I’ve heard a lot of people over the years us talk about sheep, not ever having been around sheep or owned any sheep. All the different ways that David, who was a shepherd, would have known those types of things, leading them beside still water they need to drink, but they’re so afraid of everything.

They’re afraid of any running water. The fact that they would lay down in green pastures. As many people said, sheep are so afraid of everything that everything disturbs them. And so the idea that you would be at rest and laying down as a shepherd who’s watching the sheep all the time, it’s like, how do we get them to chill out? And so it talks about all that stuff.

But then what is that about anointing my head with oil? Was that something that was different? Well, actually, that is something that’s about sheep as well. I just saw this was sent to me. And when you look at shepherds, they still do this. They still anoint their head with oil. Why do they do that? Well, there’s a lot of pictures in that one little phrase there. As one person said, sheep can get their head caught in briars.

They can die trying to get untangled. There are horrid little flies that like to torment sheep by laying eggs in their nostrils, which in turn turn into worms and drive the sheep to beat their head against a rock, sometimes beating themselves to death. Their ears and their eyes are also susceptible to tormenting insects. So the shepherd anoints their whole head with oil, and then they have peace. That oil forms a barrier of protection against the evil that is trying to destroy the sheep.

And so then they write, do you have times of mental torment? Do the worrisome thoughts evade your mind over and over? Do you beat your head against the wall trying to stop them? Have you ever asked God to anoint your head with oil? He has endless supply and his oil protects, and it makes it possible for you to fix your heart, your mind, your eyes on him today and always there is peace in the valley.

May our good godfather anoint your head so that your cup overflows. It’s an important picture. And sometimes when we look at these word pictures, there’s so much more there than we get out of know. Having been away from an agrarian society, chuck Norris has his own analogy. He’s not around sheep, but he knows all about building muscles. So he says, you need to work on your gratitude muscles.

He says only 19% of people say they are satisfied with the way things are going in our nation. 23% of the people say the country is headed in the right direction only 23%. Cost of everything is too high. We have incubators of anger around the country and the world. There’s a powder keg happening in the international community of wars. There have been 61 attacks on the US military since the 7 October, the kickoff of this Israel Hamas war 67.

61 attacks on US. Forces, he said. However, earlier this year, a UCLA Health reported on a multiple university study on the power of gratitude, and the researchers discovered that gratefulness really is a medicine for the soul. It can make you healthier, it can make you happier. If you don’t make the $1. 7 million that they or you don’t make the half a million dollars that millennials think they need to have, or you don’t have a net worth of 1.

7 million, gratitude can actually do it for you. Really can. The researchers found that those who practiced a thankful attitude had better moods, they felt less stressed and depression, they were less anxious, they enjoyed improved sleep, felt less hostile, had lower blood pressure, had lower risk of several disorders, including phobias, bulimia, and addictions like alcohol, nicotine, and even food. Researchers at UC San Diego came to a similar conclusion in their study after the University College of London had looked at the improvement in sleep quality and the decrease in blood pressure.

The San Diego study in 2016 of nearly 70 men and women at risk of heart failure asked the participants to keep a gratitude journal for eight weeks. Researchers found that the participants who kept a gratitude journal had lower levels of inflammation, a biomarker of heart failure. I guess we could say they had a grateful heart. As Dr. Chris Peterson, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, said, gratitude may not get people a new job or replenish their retirement accounts, but it can give them energy that they need to tackle their challenges.

Another professor of psychology said, when you express a feeling, you amplify it. So when you express anger or when you express worry, you get angrier, you worry more, and when you express gratitude, you become more grateful. Another psalm psalm 37. I’ve talked about this in the past, the word fret. It’s the only time it’s used that Hebrew word in all the Old Testament. And if you look it up, what it is actually about is like kindling a fire.

And as he’s writing about it, he’s talking about how he’s being oppressed and things that are bad things that are happening to him from people around him, and he’s saying, don’t fret about it, don’t fret about it. Roll this off onto God anyway. Just as with physical exercise, says Chuck Norris, when we flex or push ourselves beyond our mental ability, we also grow stronger inside. UCLA Health said that taking a moment to be thankful causes physiological changes in your body that initiate the parasympathetic nervous system, a part of the nervous system that helps you to rest and to digest.

And so he said, so there’s scientific evidence that this is the case. And people have observed this. Many of us have not gone to graduate school, but many of us have gone to gratitude school, right? Because that’s one thing that you need in order to be able to get through life. And so let me just read this. We’re talking about the pilgrims, and there’s a lot of Puritans who put together their writings, and somebody put together a collection of a lot of them.

They called it the Valley of Visha. And so let me just read this about the family here. And this is, again, a Puritan prayer talking about it. You are the Creator, father of all men. You have made and support them. You are the special father of those who know, love and honor you who find your yoke easy and your burden light and your work honorable. How little of your undeserved goodness has affected how little your undeserved goodness has affected me and how imperfectly I have improved my religious privileges.

But he goes on to talk about the family, and this is what I wanted to focus on as he looked at it and his prayer to God. He says, Sanctify and prosper my domestic devotion, my instruction, my discipline, my example, so that my house may be a nursery for heaven. That’s what I like about these pilgrim, right? They have a different way to phrase things. Think of your house as a nursery for heaven.

Make my church, the garden of the Lord, enriched with trees of righteousness. Let not those of my family who are amiable, who are moral, who are attractive, let them not fall short of heaven at last, because those things are not going to get you there. No matter how good you are. That’s not going to get you there. Grant that the promising appearances of a tender conscience, a soft heart, and the delights of your Word be not finally blotted out, but bring forth judgment to victory and all whom I love.

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