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We are to Value God’s Marvelous Works, May 20
I will praise thee; I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy
works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalm 139:14
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Every power that God has given us should be employed in the very wisest and
highest service to God. The Lord has brought out a people from the world to fit
them not only for a pure and holy heaven but to prepare them through the wisdom
He shall give them to be colaborers with God in preparing a people to stand in the
day of God.
Great light has been given upon health reform, but it is essential for all to treat
this subject with candor and to advocate it with wisdom. In our experience we
have seen many who have not presented health reform in a manner to make the
best impression upon those whom they wish would receive their views. The Bible
is full of wise counsel, and even the eating and drinking receive proper attention.
The highest privilege that man can enjoy is to be a partaker of the divine nature,
and faith that binds us in strong relationship to God will so fashion and mold mind
and conduct that we become one with Christ. No one should through intemperate
appetite so indulge his taste as to weaken any of the fine works of the human
machinery and thus impair the mind or the body. Man is the Lord’s purchased
possession.
If we are partakers of the divine nature, we will live in communion with our
Creator and value all of God’s work which led David to exclaim, “I am fearfully
and wonderfully made.” We will not consider the organs of the body our own
property, as if we had created them. All the faculties God has given to the human
body are to be appreciated.... “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s” (
1 Corinthians 6:20
).
We are not to treat unwisely one faculty of mind, soul, or body. We cannot
abuse any of the delicate organs of the human body without having to pay the
penalty because of transgression of nature’s laws. Bible religion brought into
practical life insures the highest culture of the intellect.
Temperance is exalted to a high level in the Word of God. Obeying His Word,
we can rise higher and still higher. The danger of intemperance is specified.
The advantage to be gained by temperance is laid open before us all through the
Scriptures. The voice of God is addressing us, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (
Matthew 5:48
)....
Health reform, wisely treated, will prove an entering wedge where the truth
may follow with marked success.—
The Review and Herald, June 25, 1959
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