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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 consequence 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
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Those who choose to be presumptuous, saying, “The Lord has
healed me, and I need not restrict my diet; I can eat and drink as I
please,” will ere long need, in body and soul, the restoring power of
God. Because the Lord has graciously healed you, you must not think
you can link yourselves up with the self-indulgent practices of the
world. Do as Christ commanded after His work of healing,—“go, and
sin no more.”
John 8:11
. Appetite must not be your god.
The Lord gave His word to ancient Israel, that if they would cleave
strictly to Him, and do all His requirements, He would keep them
from all the diseases such as He had brought upon the Egyptians;
but this promise was given on the condition of obedience. Had the
Israelites obeyed the instruction they received, and profited by their
advantages, they would have been the world’s object lesson of health
and prosperity. The Israelites failed of fulfilling God’s purpose, and
thus failed of receiving the blessings that might have been theirs. But
in Joseph and Daniel, in Moses and Elijah, and many others, we
have noble examples of the results of the true plan of living. Like
faithfulness today will produce like results. To us it is written, “Ye
are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9
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O 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