FOR FIFTEEN YEARS Jim Fixx, author of the 1978 bestseller, The Complete Book on Running, ran eighty miles a week…

He appeared to be in tip-top shape.

It didn’t seem possible a man his age could be in better condition.

Yet, at age fifty-two, Fixx died of a massive heart attack while running alone on a Vermont road.

His wife, Alice, later said she was certain Fixx had no idea he suffered from a heart problem.

Why?

Because he refused to get regular checkups.

After Jim Fixx’s death, doctors speculated that his heart was so strong he may not have had the telltale chest pains or shortness of breath that usually signal heart disease.

THOUGHT:  It is easy to be deceived, and the easiest person to deceive is self.

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  1 John 1:8-9

–Mike Benson