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Our Thinking Is Affected by Our Eating, October 27
Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them
the abundance of peace and truth.
Jeremiah 33:6
, NKJV.
The principles of healthful living mean a great deal to us individually and as
a people. When the message of health reform first came to me, I was weak and
feeble, subject to frequent fainting spells. I was pleading with God for help, and
He opened before me the great subject of health reform. He instructed me that
those who are keeping His commandments must be brought into sacred relation to
Himself, and that by temperance in eating and drinking they must keep mind and
body in the most favorable condition for service....
We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in
countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh meat is not the
right food for God’s people. I have been instructed that flesh meat has a tendency
to animalize the nature, to rob men and women of that love and sympathy which
they should feel for everyone, and to give the lower passions control over the higher
powers of the being. If meat eating was ever healthful, it is not safe now. Cancers,
tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat eating.
We are not to make the use of flesh meat a test of fellowship, but we should
consider the influence that professed believers who use flesh meats have over others.
As God’s messengers, shall we not say to the people, “Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God”?
Shall we not bear a decided testimony against the indulgence of perverted
appetite? Will any who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn
truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning to the fleshpots of Egypt?
Will those who are supported by the tithe from God’s storehouse permit themselves
by self-indulgence to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins?
Will they disregard the light and warnings that God has given them?
The health of the body is to be regarded as essential to growth in grace and
the acquirement of an even temper. If the stomach is not properly cared for, the
formation of an upright moral character will be hindered. The brain and nerves are
in sympathy with the stomach. Erroneous eating and drinking result in erroneous
thinking and acting.—
The Review and Herald, March 3, 1910
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