FW: Rejuvenation

 

 

 

This is the 63^rd letter:  

Text for the day: 1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

 

Our Theme for the day: “Rejuvenation” 

 

Why is it that every year around the same time there is an out break of sickness or flu? Even as you are reading this devotion, plans are being made to fight against the next invasion of sickness. When I was young, I use to hear people say God helps those who help themselves. But is that true? Sad to say, like many of you I thought that was in the Bible, but it isn’t. David Truman in his article The Truth Behind "God Helps Those who Help Themselves" makes this point clear when he wrote, “It is fair to say that God's help is more likely to be effective if you are earnestly trying to do your part to help yourself. And sometimes, God can't effectively help a guy who's working too hard to unhelp himself.”  In looking a little closer at the success stories of those with good health verses the not so good stories of those who are living with bad health, my mind got to thinking about God’s original plan for mankind and health.

Which leads me to this question, when was the last time you ask yourself, why is there so much sickness or people getting sick in our world? The first thing we need to establish is that I am not a doctor, or claim to have all the answers to life’s problems. I am a Bible instructor or teacher of the Book who loves to study a wide range of topics.  Ultimately it is the great physician and teacher who gives you an understanding of the area of life most needed. And He will work through the area of life most adapted to you, so put behind you the notion that unless you attain an established school God can’t use you to help someone. It would be good if all can have excess to a form of higher learning.  But remember higher learning is not the end to the means of your high calling in Christ Jesus. But the means to an end of you having a better understanding of your high calling in Christ Jesus. To help us understand that God can use the educated, and the not so educated we turn our attention to the book of Acts.

In the days of the apostles the Bible says, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” Would that we all find a little more time to be with Jesus. God is no respecter of person, and He longs that we as servant leaders be the same. Now back to our topic on health. Did you not know that most people take good health for granted? In fact most people only worry about good heath after it’s almost gone. We should seek to preserve the full vigor of all our powers for the accomplishment of the work before us. Whatever detracts from physical vigor weakens mental effort. Hence, every practice unfavorable to the health of the body should be resolutely shunned.

We cannot maintain consecration to God and yet injure our health by the willful indulgence of a wrong habit. Self-denial is one of the conditions, not only of admission into the service of Christ, but of continuance therein. Christ Himself declared, in unmistakable language, the conditions of discipleship: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Yet, how many who call themselves Christians is unwilling to exercise self-denial, even for Christ's sake. How often the love for some pernicious indulgence is stronger than the desire for a sound mind in a sound body. Precious hours of probation are spent, God-given means squandered, to please the eye or to gratify the appetite. Custom holds thousands in bondage to the earthly and sensual. Many are willing captives; they desire no better portion. {By Ellen G. White Mind Character and Personality380- 381} It is time for us all to come up to higher ground in our health.

 

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