What's under the hood?
14 A healthy spirit conquers adversity, but what can you do when the spirit is crushed? (Proverbs 18:14) A healthy spirit has conquering power! There is a soundness and vigor that is evident when the spirit is in a place of "health". Our writer asks a tough question: What can you do when the spirit is crushed? That's a tough one - even though your first answer might be to turn to Jesus to have him heal it! That is kind of like a "pat answer" for all of our life's problems. Yet, we often turn to him for health without even realizing what it was that brought us to the point of being crushed! We rarely get into a place where we have "crushed" spirits because we were blind-sided by some event, course of discussion, or infirmity of mind. The emotional investment we make into our daily walk with Christ is a pretty good indicator of how "healthy" our spirit is. When we are emotionally "invested", we might find ourselves