82
Counsels on Health
Galatians to “walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the
flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh.”
Galatians 5:16, 17
. He names some of the forms of fleshly
lusts—idolatry, drunkenness, and such like. After mentioning the fruits
of the Spirit, among which is temperance, he adds, “And they that are
Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
Verse
24
.
There are many among professed Christians today who would
decide that Daniel was too particular and would pronounce him narrow
and bigoted. They consider the matter of eating and drinking of too
little consequence to require such a decided stand—one involving the
[70]
probable sacrifice of every earthly advantage. But those who reason
thus will find in the day of judgment that they turned from God’s
express requirements and set up their own opinion as a standard of
right and wrong. They will find that what seemed to them unimportant
was not so regarded of God. His requirements should be sacredly
obeyed. Those who accept and obey one of His precepts because it is
convenient to do so, while they reject another because its observance
would require a sacrifice, lower the standard of right, and by their
example lead others to lightly regard the holy law of God. “Thus saith
the Lord” is to be our rule in all things.