Mental Nicotine

Repainted many times. Not finished yet.

One night I muscled my 10-lb medical textbook out of my book case and turned to the heart section.  I read that if a smoker quits smoking, they can reverse the damage of 10 years of smoking in 1 year. 

Most people think that smoking effects your lungs, and it does, but it is also devastating to the heart.
I always knew that it would be good for smokers to quit smoking, but would it really help?  After all those years of damage, what's the use of stopping now? 

Like a smoker, many people have wasted hours, days, and years on mental cigarettes of fear, covetousness, pride, or anger. I think I tended to fear sometimes that following God would be boring and drab.  Certainly if God had given me what I deserved, he would have abandoned me long ago.  But somehow whenever I drop my cigarette of fear (or pride....or anger), there's God, ready to start the restoring process.  Sometimes I can almost physically feel his restoration pouring through my soul.

 If 40 years of smoking damage can be reversed in just 4 years, just because of the healing properties of the human heart, then I'm sure God's ability to restore our damaged immortal hearts must be even greater.

All we have to do is stop smoking.