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Love for God Is Essential for Perfect Health, October 31
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:20
, NKJV.
Our bodies belong to God. He paid the price of redemption for the body as well
as for the soul.... The Creator watches over the human machinery, keeping it in
motion. Were it not for His constant care, the pulse would not beat, the action of
the heart would cease, the brain would no longer act its part.
The brain is the organ and instrument of the mind, and controls the whole body.
In order for the other parts of the system to be healthy, the brain must be healthy.
And in order for the brain to be healthy, the blood must be pure. If by correct habits
of eating and drinking the blood is kept pure, the brain will be properly nourished.
It is the lack of harmonious action in the human organism that brings disease.
The imagination may control the other parts of the body to their injury. All parts
of the system must work harmoniously. The different parts of the body, especially
those remote from the heart, should receive a free circulation of blood. The limbs
act an important part, and should receive proper attention.
God is the great caretaker of the human machinery. In the care of our bodies we
must cooperate with Him. Love for God is essential for life and health.... In order
to have perfect health our hearts must be filled with love and hope and joy....
Those who put their whole souls into the medical missionary work, who labor
untiringly in peril, in privation, in watchings oft, in weariness and painfulness, are
in danger of forgetting that they must be faithful guardians of their own mental and
physical powers. They are not to allow themselves to be overtaxed. But they are
filled with zeal and earnestness, and they sometimes move unadvisedly, putting
themselves under too heavy a strain. Unless such workers make a change, the result
will be that sickness will come upon them and they will break down....
We have a calling as much higher than common, selfish interests as the heavens
are higher than the earth. But this thought should not lead the willing, hardworking
servants of God to carry all the burdens they can possibly bear, without periods of
rest.—
Medical Ministry, 291-293
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