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To Be Like Jesus — Day 273 of 333 November—Worshiping at Home Though We Fall, We Can Conquer, November 1 Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days! Psalm 90:14 , NKJV. If God's people would recognize His dealings with them and accept His teachings, they would find a straight path for their feet and a light to guide them through darkness and discouragement. David learned wisdom from God's dealings with him and bowed in humility beneath the chastisement of the Most High. The faithful portrayal of his true stat...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 272 of 333 Love for God Is Essential for Perfect Health, October 31 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:20 , NKJV. Our bodies belong to God. He paid the price of redemption for the body as well as for the soul.... The Creator watches over the human machinery, keeping it in motion. Were it not for His constant care, the pulse would not beat, the action of the heart would cease, the brain would no longer act its part. The brain is the organ and instrument ...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 271 of 333 Pure, Fresh Air Promotes Health of Mind and Body, October 30 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones. Proverbs 3:7, 8 , NKJV. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul. Nothing is so fruitful a cause of disease as depression, gloominess, and sadness. Mental depression is terrible.... Air, air, the precious boon of heaven which all may have, will bless you with its invigorating influence if you will not...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 270 of 333 Both Physical and Mental Faculties to Be Cultivated, October 29 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? 1 Corinthians 6:19 , NKJV. Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased, if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness if health is wanting. It is a terrible sin to abuse the health that God has given us. Every abuse of he...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 269 of 333 Prepare Wholesome Diet Without Flesh Meats, October 28 Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of my people? Jeremiah 8:22 , NKJV. All are now being tested and proved. We have been baptized into Christ, and if we will act our part by separating from everything that would drag us down and make us what we ought not to be, strength to grow into Christ, who is our living head, will be given us, and we shall see the salvation of God. Only when we are intellig...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 268 of 333 Our Thinking Is Affected by Our Eating, October 27 Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. Jeremiah 33:6 , NKJV. The principles of healthful living mean a great deal to us individually and as a people. When the message of health reform first came to me, I was weak and feeble, subject to frequent fainting spells. I was pleading with God for help, and He opened before me the great subject of health reform. He instructed me that those who are keeping His commandm...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 267 of 333 Temperance in All Things Is Essential, October 26 According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. Philippians 1:20 , NKJV. There are many now under the shadow of death who have prepared to do a work for the Master, but who have not felt that a sacred obligation rested upon them to observe the laws of health. The laws of the physical system are indeed the laws of God; but this fact seem...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 266 of 333 Physical Work Helps to Develop Mind and Character, October 25 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. Isaiah 65:21, 22 , NKJV. Now, as in the days of Israel, every youth should be instructed in the duties of practical life. Each should acquire a knowledge of some branch of manual labor by w...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 265 of 333 To Have a Clear Mind, Follow Temperance Principles, October 24 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 , NKJV. The apostle thus entreats, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” ... When we pursue a course of eating and drinking that lessens physical ...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 264 of 333 Effect Follows Cause, Producing Health or Disease, October 23 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Matthew 12:33 , NKJV. Adam and Eve in Eden were noble in stature, and perfect in symmetry and beauty. They were sinless, and in perfect health. What a contrast to the human race now! Beauty is gone. Perfect health is not known. Everywhere we look we see disease, deformity, and imbecility.... Since the fall, intemperance in almost every form has ex...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 263 of 333 Follow Divine Counsel to Preserve Health, October 22 So Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good. Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.” Exodus 18:17, 18 , NKJV. When we do all we can on our part to have health, then may we expect that the blessed results will follow, and we can ask God in faith to bless our efforts for the preservation of health. He will then answer our ...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 262 of 333 Obey Nature's Laws to Enjoy Health, October 21 Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12 , NKJV. There is not one in a thousand, married or unmarried, who realizes the importance of purity of habits, in preserving cleanliness of the body and purity of thought. Sickness and disease is the sure consequence of disobedience to nature's laws, and neglect of the laws of life and health. It is the house in which we live that we ne...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 261 of 333 Through Jesus Comes Health and Relief From Perplexities, October 20 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Exodus 15:23, 24 , NKJV. The Lord had a lesson to teach the children of Israel. The waters of Marah were an object lesson, representing the diseases brought upon human beings because of sin. It is no mystery that the inhabitants of the earth are suff...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 260 of 333 Stimulants Eventually Produce Evil Results, October 19 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 , NRSV. As a people, with all our profession of health reform, we eat too much. Indulgence of appetite is the greatest cause of physical and mental debility, and lies at the foundation of the feebleness which is apparent everywhere. In...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 259 of 333 Control of Appetite to Begin in Childhood, October 18 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 , NKJV. Not only has disease been transmitted from generation to generation, but parents bequeath to their children their own wrong habits, their perverted appetites, and corrupt passions. Men and women are slow to learn wisdom from the history of the past. The strange absence of principle that characterizes the present generation, the disregard of the laws of life and healt...

To Be Like Jesus — Day 258 of 333 Food to Be Wholesome and Palatable, October 17 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Isaiah 55:2 , NKJV. Some of our people, while conscientiously abstaining from eating improper foods, neglect to supply themselves with the elements necessary for the sustenance of the body. Those who take an extreme view of health reform are in danger of preparing tasteless dishes, making them so insipid tha...