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God’s Dwelling Place, August 9
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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Corinthians 6:19
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By a most beautiful and impressive figure, God’s Word shows the
regard He places upon our physical organism and the responsibility
resting on us to preserve it in the best condition....
The body is a temple in which God desires to dwell,.... it must be
kept pure, the abiding place of high and noble thoughts.
The knowledge that man is to be a temple for God, a habitation for
the revealing of His glory, should be the highest incentive to the care
and development of our physical powers. Fearfully and wonderfully has
the Creator wrought in the human frame, and He bids us make it our
study, understand its needs, and act our part in preserving it from harm
and defilement.
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 of which we are capable. Hence
that time is spent to good account which is used in the establishment
and preservation of physical and mental health. We cannot afford to
dwarf or cripple any function of body or mind. As surely as we do this
we must suffer the consequences.
The desire of God for every human being is expressed in the words,
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
3 John 2
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He it is who “forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mercies.”
Psalm 103:3, 4
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“Above all things,” God desires us to “be in health”—health of body
and of soul. And we are to be workers together with Him for the health
of both soul and body.
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