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Glorify God by Improving Health Habits, November 2
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:20
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Our first duty toward God and our fellow beings is that of self-
development. Every faculty with which the Creator has endowed us should
be cultivated to the highest degree of perfection, that we may be able to do
the greatest amount of good which we are capable. Hence that time is spent
to good account which is directed to the establishment and preservation of
sound physical and mental health
Man is God’s workmanship, His masterpiece, created for a high and
holy purpose; and on every part of the human tabernacle God desires
to write His law.... Every nerve and muscle, every mental and physical
endowment, is to be kept pure.
God designs that the body shall be as a temple for His Spirit. Solemn
is the accountability resting upon every soul. Your individual influence is
exercised for good or for evil. If you defile your body, you are not only
doing harm to yourself, but to many others. Christians are under obligation
to God to keep soul, body, and spirit free from all that will defile; for they
have been bought with a price....
No man or woman has any right to form habits which lessen the health-
ful action of one organ of mind or body.... Those who give themselves up
to the use of tobacco and liquor do not appreciate their intellect. They do
not realize the value of the faculties God has given them, to be cultivated
and improved. Thus men allow their powers to wither and decay. God
desires all who believe in Him to feel the necessity of improvement. Every
entrusted faculty is to be enlarged. Not one gift is to be laid aside. As
God’s husbandry and building, man is under His supervision in every
sense of the word, and the better he becomes acquainted with his Maker,
the more sacred will his life become in his estimation
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Child Guidance, 395
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Manuscript 130, 1899
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