Enjoying healthy life beyond retirement years?
The world in every
country is experiencing an aging population. This phenomenon of human beings in
the present generation living a longer life is due to better sanitation in the
water we use daily for living. Clean water reduces the incidence of spread of infectious
diseases such as cholera,
influenza,infectious diarrhea, SARS and now the Wuhan coronavirus. Is an aging
population detrimental to society progress and advancement?
A massive study in America has found that the most
productive age in a man’s life is age 60-70. From age 70-80 is the second most
productive age. The third most productive age
is 50-60. Let’s examine the fact. The average age of a Nobel Prize winner is age 62. The average
age of a CEO in a Fortune 500 company is
63. The average age of the pastors of the 100 biggest churches in America is
71. The average age of pope is 76. This tells us somehow God has designed that
the best years of our lives are between 60-80. A study published in New England
Journal of Medicine:70.389(2018) found that at 60 you reach your peak of
potential and continue up to 80!
If you are a believer of God, there is no retirement age for man but young
men must be at least 20 years of age to start with. Moses was 120, Caleb,
Joshua were in their 80s and Job died at age 140. Abraham expired at age 175. However, the problem the recovery faced are
the premature death and sickness encountered by the younger ones. The talk about being useful as we matured and
aged into the evening years of life is just
academic and doctrine.
The usefulness is a reality in
our old age only IF we have good health to sustain this remaining years as in
the cases of Moses or Job.
The burden on the subject is how to keep ourselves
healthy, vital and strong both in the body and mind? The Lord’s has been merciful to us and He has
the answer to keep us in such an optimum state to be useful to Him and His
divine economy even as we accumulate the
years into our life.
In this post,
I will focus and emphasize on just water. The kind of water we drink and
permit to enter our body. The water we drink for living daily has much to
contribute towards how we feel in our old age. Why is water so important to our life? It is because
our entire body’s organs are composed of water.
From over 80% in the lungs and heart to only 22% in our bones. Without air we can die in 3 minutes! Without
clean water to sustain us, we shall die in 3 days!!
Our human body is 70% water. The details are as
followed :-
Teeth 10%
Bones 22% Cartilage 55% Red Blood
corpuscles 68.7 % Liver 71.5% muscle tissues 75.6% Spleen 75.5% Lungs 80% ,
Kidneys 82.7% Blood 83 %, Brain 75%
Bile 86% Plasma 90% Lymph 94% and Saliva
95.5%
Every day depending on our rate of sweating or
perspiration and urination, we consume about 2-3 litres of water to allow optimum
function of all the organs in an orderly manner. The water lost must be replaced
or we can die slowly of dehydration.
Water is a universal solvent which in our blood acts as a medium to transport oxygen to all the cells, dispense nutrients, hormones, enzymes and other life
giving substances to the cells for
regeneration, repair damaged cells. At the same time, very importantly remove
harmful waste products, toxins and other by products from the process of metabolism. The water in the blood carries these life
giving substances and oxygen by the artery to the cells, and get rid of waste
products such as dead cells, urea, salts out of the body by the veins.
Capillaries are the tiny blood vessels which connect the arteries to the veins.
The entire length of this net work of blood vessels join end to end is 2 and
half times the circumference of the earth. 100,00 kilo
meters long.
So what kind of water should we drink to keep us
healthy and full of strength to sail
into the retirement years?
Let us learn from a few examples of the kind of water consumed in the old
testament such as from wells and what happened to the drinkers of such kind of water?
First significant case is that of Isaac. Isaac dug many wells in different occasions. Gen
26:18-22, 32 and not only he dug the
wells, he drank the well’s water also. Both Isaac and Jacob drank from the same
ancient wells dug from Abraham’s time. John 4:12 our father Jacob who gave us
the well and drank of it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle.
In Gen 27:1 Now when Isaac was old, and his eyes had
become so dim that he could not see… How did
Isaac eyes deteriorated and
become so dim and he could not see. Remember the earlier explanation about the function of blood and
the blood vessels( capillaries) which transport nutrients, oxygen to keep the
cells alive such as the cornea of our eyes? Isaac drank well water,
which has minerals dissolved into it from the side of the well which were made
from mud or earth. Water a universal solvent dissolves small amount earth’s
minerals and when these trace minute amount of inorganic minerals entered
Isaac’s blood vessels, it blocked the capillaries of his eyes which supplied
oxygen and nutrients to keep his cornea clear and transparent. Hence his eyes
became dim. The same affliction affected
Jacob who drank well water. Gen 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age,
and he could not see.
Now let’s examine another case of
another class of water drinker s
from another different source of
water . Water from the cleft rock which Moses and Caleb, Joshua drank. Water
issued from the rock. Exo 17:6… you shall strike the rock and water will come
out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did do in the sight of the
elders of Israel. Num 20:8 …speak to the rock before their eyes, so that it
yields its water. Thus you shall bring forth water for them out of the rock and
give the assembly and their livestock something to drink Number 20:10 And Moses and Aaron..said to them Shall we
bring forth water for you out of this rock? Num 20:11 …struck the rock with his
rod twice and abundant water came forth, and the assembly and their livestock
drank. Deut 8:15 Who brought forth water
for you out of flint rock.. The
reason more than three times were
mentioned that the water came out of the rock
is to emphasized the water came
from the rock is of a different kind. Rock such as granite is hard and
impermeable to water unlike the softness
of soil. Rock has hard surface and when the water is running, it has no time to
react to dissolve any mineral contains
in the rock surface. This property of hard, impermeable surface keeps the water pure and free from dissolved minerals unlike
that of well water which react with soil and polluted the water with residue of
earth’s mineral. I have tested water from the rock, such as occurring naturally
from water fall and running mountain spring. These waters are pure and free of
any residual minerals with a reading of zero with a total dissolved solid
meter. Our heavenly Father, gave such high class clean pure water to the
children of Israel this water for forty years hence, none was sick or suffered
from any ailment associated with
polluted water. And the positive evidence of such clean water on
Moses’s health was recorded in Deut 34:7 Moses was a hundred and
twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor had his freshness left
him. Joshua has a similar testimony from
drinking the same water. Joshua 14:7,
10 I was forty years old when Moses sent
me to spy out the land, and now look Jehovah has kept me alive… all these forty
five years and today I am eight five years old
verse 11 today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me
out as my strength was then, so my
strength is now. The purity of water
that enters the human body is of the utmost importance. The water quality that enter our body will affect
our entire body’s metabolism from red
blood cells production with has a cycle of 100-120 days, our heart beat rate and rhythm of 60-100 times a
minute. Our immune system and kidney filtration of toxins, and production of pancreatic juice to
regulate sugar level in our blood.
To keep us in top form and heath God has a process
to purify our water. Jeremiah 10:13 He
caused the vapours to arise from the end of the earth. Psalm 77:17 The cloud
pour forth water, Psalm 65:9 You visited the earth and
water it. You enrich it greatly. Isaiah 55:10 the rains pour forth, it waters
the earth until it bear sprout forth. Amos 5:8 ,9:6 He calls for the water of the sea and pours it upon the
surface of the earth . The sea water which forms 97% of the total water storage
on earth planet, has a salt content of 18,960 parts per million minerals mainly
salt. But by the time the water which has been
transformed into rain has almost zero reading in minerals. Hence the
plants and animals do not die when it rains. The salt is removed by
distillation. Condensation virtually removes all traces of minerals from the sea water. Job 36:27 For He
draws up the drops of water which DISTILL into rain from His mist.which the
skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
Over the many years since I was saved into the
Recovery from the years 2002, I have attended many
memorial services of the saints who died.
Some older ones, many in their 50s and 60s and some even below 35, I always
made a survey on the same question, What
kind of water the deceased’s family consume daily? I have so far never come
across a single family or a saint who drinks water from a distillation machine. I appear to be an
exception so far.
The Lord encouraged me greatly over this question
of drinking pure water. One day, during
a Malaysian blending conference in
Subang Jaya many years ago, I found
myself sitting next to another saint
from Kampar, Gary Low. The conversation
turned to the subject of water and health. Without any probing on my part, this saint told me of his father in Law who
was age 93 at that time of his living habit. His father-in law is an orang Asli or people who originated
from the jungle. Gary shared with me that his father in law who is
allergic to oily food, eats steam
fish and chicken. Moreover, his father in law does not trust the quality of the tap water from
the town council, so he on his own
took the effort to connect his family water supply from a mountain
stream of a water fall from behind his
house. He used a plastic pipe to transfer the water to his bathroom and
kitchen. He drinks from this water source. So I asked of him to send me a water sample for testing from this mountain
water. Upon testing I found the water to be exceptionally clean and free from
any minerals. This is the water from the rock, the same water Joshua,
Caleb and Moses consumed in ancient
Israel.
In our daily living to stay alive and healthy on
earth, we breath about 13.5 kilo of air
about 2 liters of water and over
1 kilo of food. If we drink the right kind of water, as Moses and Joshua and
Caleb and avoid well water which caused Isaac and Jacob’s eyes to be dim, we have to apply
the wisdom of drinking the right kind of
water to be useful and full of strength like
Moses. To ignore the lesson of water from the rock, we needlessly
kill ourselves prematurely and slowly. Die and sick by installment.
I share this
insight of health for the benefit
of more members of His
Body. Those who are destined to be healthy and useful even in their old age, shall be preserved . In sharing
this I have done my part as in Ezekiel to
warn the ignorant who drink the wrong kind of water and suffer the
consequences. The blood of the ignorant is not in my hands. My people are
destroyed for lack of this particular knowledge .The masses are not concerned
about something so fundamental and basic to live healthily. This is also
mentioned twice in the Proverb 14:12 and
16:25 There’s a way which seems right
to a man, but the end of it is
the way of death. Prov 16:22 Insight is
a foundation of life to him who has it.
At the age of 68 coming this April 2020, I am
thankful that all these years of my
living all my organs are intact, never need to have a surgery to correct this
and that defect or deficiency. I have
never taken any sick leave due to common
ailments such as headache , fever for
flu or cold. Never need to take any medication such as for high blood pressure, diabetes or heart
disease. By the grace of God, I hope to
sail into the golden age without any medical
intervention or emergency.
Jordan Tan
0163376517 P O Box 12619 50784 Kuala Lumpur
Further reading
:-
U S drinking
water contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ report Reuters 22 Jan 2020 Yahoo news
Water, the shocking truth that can save your
life by
Paul C Bragg
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