Health to the True Worshiper
“AND thine health shall spring forth speedily.” Godliness has promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come. How can anybody who believes the Bible, read such passages as this, and still think that it is necessarily the lot of God’s people to suffer from disease? Nothing can be more plain than that the Lord promises health to all those who serve him intelligently and in truth. Ex. 23:25. This is not an arbitrary thing, but the result of a definite cause. Notice that there is here a close connection between health and food. The rule among men is to consider only their appetite, and to eat whatever pleases it. Most people eat for the mere enjoyment of eating, and not in order that they may have the most perfect life; and thus they defeat themselves; for although they have a momentary enjoyment while the delicate morsels are going down their throats, the suffering which they undergo in consequence of disregarding the laws of life are almost continual; while those who eat only to have life wherewith to glorify God, not only get pleasure in the act of eating, but are continually filled with the joy of the life of the eternal God.—Selected.