Faithfulness in Health Reform
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Then God Can Bless
Those ministers who feel at liberty to indulge the appetite are
falling far short of the mark. God wants them to be health reformers.
He wants them to live up to the light that has been given on this subject.
I feel sad when I see those who ought to be zealous for our health
principles, not yet converted to the right way of living. I pray that the
Lord may impress their minds that they are meeting with great loss.
If things were as they should be in the households that make up our
churches, we might do double work for the Lord.
In order to be purified and to remain pure, Seventh-day Adventists
must have the Holy Spirit in their hearts and in their homes. The Lord
has given me light that when the Israel of today humble themselves
before Him, and cleanse the soul-temple from all defilement, He will
hear their prayers in behalf of the sick and will bless in the use of His
remedies for disease. When in faith the human agent does all he can
to combat disease, using the simple methods of treatment that God has
provided, his efforts will be blessed of God.
If, after so much light has been given, God’s people will cherish
wrong habits, indulging self and refusing to reform, they will suffer the
sure consequences of transgression. If they are determined to gratify
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perverted appetite at any cost, God will not miraculously save them
from the consequences of their indulgence. They “shall lie down in
sorrow.”
Isaiah 50:11
.
Oh, how many lose the richest blessings that God has in store
for them in health and spiritual endowments! There are many souls
who wrestle for special victories and special blessings that they may
do some great thing. To this end they are always feeling that they
must make an agonizing struggle in prayer and tears. When these
persons search the Scriptures with prayer to know the expressed will
of God, and then do His will from the heart without one reservation
or self-indulgence, they will find rest. All the agonizing, all the tears
and struggles, will not bring them the blessing they long for. Self must
be entirely surrendered. They must do the work that presents itself,
appropriating the abundance of the grace of God which is promised to
all who ask in faith.
“If any man will come after Me,” said Jesus, “let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
Luke 9:23
. Let us follow