Living In The Light

June 2, Educate, Educate, Educate

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
—1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 LL 164.1

It is labor lost to teach people to go to God as a healer of their infirmities unless they are educated to lay aside every wrong practice and cease to indulge perverted appetite. They must be taught to use the provisions God has given. To refuse the remedies which they may as well have as not without paying a doctor’s fee, to neglect to let into every room in the house God’s pure air and sunshine, shows a lack of faith in Him. Faith in God’s power to heal infirmities is dead unless the one diseased improves the light God has given them by bringing their habits into harmony with right principles. . . . LL 164.2

We must educate, educate, educate, pleasantly and intelligently. We must preach the truth, pray the truth, and live the truth, bringing it with its gracious, health-giving influences within the reach of those who know it not. As the sick are brought into touch with the Life-giver their faculties of mind and body will be renewed. But in order for this to be, they must practice self-denial, and be temperate in all things. Thus only can they be saved from physical and spiritual death and restored to health. LL 164.3

When the human machinery moves in harmony with the life-giving arrangements of God, as brought to light through the gospel, disease is overcome and health springs forth speedily. When human beings work in union with the Life-giver, who offered up His life for them, happy thoughts fill the mind. Body and mind and soul are sanctified. Human beings learn of the Great Teacher, and all upon which they look ennobles and enriches the thoughts. The affections are drawn out in gladness and thankfulness to the Creator. The life of the person who is renewed in the image of Christ is as a light shining in darkness. . . . LL 164.4

To teachers in our schools, to ministers and physicians and nurses, I would say, if you will, you can succeed in revealing the truths of the third angel’s message. This will not be done merely by preaching the Word, but by the deeds of loving ministry It is the spirit of the Word that we so greatly need.— Medical Ministry , pp. 262, 263. LL 164.5

Further Reflection: : Why is it important to learn how to live a healthy lifestyle? LL 164.6