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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Consider the Judgment
46. The Lord calls for volunteers to enter His army. Sickly men
and women need to become health reformers. God will cooperate with
His children in preserving their health, if they eat with care, refusing
to put unnecessary burdens on the stomach. He has graciously made
the path of nature sure and safe, wide enough for all who walk in
it. He has given for our sustenance the wholesome and health-giving
productions of the earth.
He who does not heed the instruction God has given in His word
and in His works, he who does not obey the divine commands, has
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a defective experience. He is a sickly Christian. His spiritual life is
feeble. He lives, but his life is devoid of fragrance. He fritters away
precious moments of grace.
Many have done the body much injury by a disregard of the laws
of life, and they may never recover from the effects of their neglect;
but even now they may repent and be converted. Man has tried to be
wiser than God. He has become a law unto himself. God calls upon
us to give attention to His requirements, no longer to dishonor Him
by dwarfing the physical, mental, and spiritual capabilities. Premature
decay and death are the result of walking away from God to follow
the ways of the world. He who indulges self must bear the penalty.
In the judgment we shall see how seriously God regards the violation
of the laws of health. Then, as we take a retrospective view of our
course of action, we shall see what knowledge of God we might have
gained, what noble characters we might have formed, if we had taken
the Bible as our counselor.
The Lord is waiting for His people to become wise in understand-
ing. As we see the wretchedness, deformity, and disease that have
come into the world as the result of ignorance in regard to the proper
care of the body, how can we refrain from giving the warning? Christ
has declared that as it was in the days of Noah, when the earth was
filled with violence and corrupted by crime, so shall it be when the
Son of man is revealed. God has given us great light, and if we walk
in this light, we shall see His salvation.
There is need of decided changes. It is time for us to humble our
proud, self-willed hearts, and seek the Lord while He may be found.