A Revival in Health Reform
Obedience
to Physical Law
Since the laws
of nature are the laws of God, it is plainly our duty to give
these laws
careful study. We should study their requirements in regard to our
own bodies and
conform to them. Ignorance in these things is sin.
“Know ye not
that your bodies are the members of Christ?” “What? know
ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which
ye have of God,
and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price:
therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1
Corinthians
6:15, 19, 20. Our bodies are Christ’s purchased property, and we
are not at
liberty to do with them as we please. Man has done this. He has
treated his body
as if its laws had no penalty. Through perverted appetite its
organs and
powers have become enfeebled, diseased, and crippled. And these
results which
Satan has brought about by his own specious temptations he
uses to taunt
God with. He presents before God the human body that Christ
has purchased as
His property, and what an unsightly representation of his
Maker man is!
Because man has sinned against his body and has corrupted
his ways, God is
dishonored. When men and women are truly converted, they will conscientiously regard
the laws of life that God has established in their being, thus seeking to avoid
physical, mental, and moral feebleness. Obedience to these laws
must be made a
matter of personal duty. We ourselves must suffer the ills of
violated law. We
must answer to God for our habits and practices. Therefore
the question for
us is not, “What will the world say?” but, “How shall I, claiming to be a
Christian, treat the habitation God has given me? Shall I work for my
highest temporal
and spiritual good by keeping my body as a temple for the
indwelling of
the Holy Spirit, or shall I sacrifice myself to the world’s ideas
and practices?” Healthful
living must be made a family matter. Parents should awake to their God-given
responsibilities. Let them study the principles of health
reform and teach
their children that the path of self-denial is the only path of
safety. The mass
of the inhabitants of the world by their disregard of physical
law are
destroying their power of self-control and unfitting themselves to
appreciate
eternal realities. Willingly ignorant of their own structure, they
lead their
children in the path of self-indulgence, thus preparing the way for
them to suffer
the penalty of the transgression of nature’s laws. This is not
taking a wise
interest in the welfare of their families.
REFEFENCE
Testimonies
for the Church
Volume
Six
Ellen
G. White
1901,Page
369
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