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 conscien-
tiously regard the laws of life that God has established in their being,
thus seeking to avoid physical, mental, and moral feebleness. Obe-
dience 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
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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?”
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