I've been reading a book: Get Well and
Stay Well – Jane Stevenson... (Jane Stevenson website)
Now I understand that there are many
people who will tell me that I am wasting my time and Gods time by
reading stuff about nutrition and general health. I have my
reasons...
Reason 1: God wants us to be healthy...
We know this because Jesus himself healed many! So... if God wants
us to be healthy – we should do our best to make sure that happens!
I can not be praying for others if I'm in line being prayed for!
Besides, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, it is our duty to look
after our body!
Reason 2: If I am sick, tired, weak, in
hospital, I'm obviously not going to be where I was designed to be!
So, if I do my best to make sure I am healthy, and if I rely on God
for the rest – because I'm only human and cant do everything...
then I'm going to be a lot free-er to do what God tells me to do!
Logical - I think yes!
I believe that correct nutrition goes
hand in hand with Communion and life in general! God made various
vitamins and minerals, and He made the human body to require and
function properly with these vitamins and minerals! So, my logic
says, if I make sure I'm getting the right balance of vitamins and
minerals, then I am less likely to get sick, therefore I am more able
to my particular job! Which means that my brain will function
properly to be able to think straight and write blog posts, and share
what God is saying to me, in a way that people can understand! It
also means that as a photographer, I will have the energy to do my
job!
And another thing I like about reading
this book (aside from its logic) is that it is showing the physical
body and God has been showing me the spiritual and emotional parts!
Take Elijah House Ministries – they
deal with ones emotional and spiritual issues (and on occasion
physical issues get dealt with in the process, because some physical
issues are caused by ones emotional and spiritual state). They pray
in order to seek the underlying root cause of a particular issue.
There is no band-aid solution with them. You deal with the root
cause, and while that may be painful, it solves the problem and
eventually the symptoms of the problem fade away, because the problem
is no longer there!
You go to a Dr. because you are
physically sick. He/She gives you some medication... This often, but
not always, is a band-aid solution to the actual problem... If you
knew the underlying root cause of a physical problem – you'd seek
the solution, right?
So, if you are having nightly calf
muscle cramps, would you want “solution a” or “solution b”?
Solution A: Quinine sulphate... Which,
while for a short time, looks like its solved the problem, doesn't
actually fix the root problem... The underlying problem still exists
and slowly becomes worse...
Solution B: Magnesium – this makes
the muscles relax naturally along with solving the underlying issue
of the magnesium deficiency... Problem solved. Symptoms go away!
Solving the root issue saves a lot of
heart ache, physical pain and financial pain! We do it in prayer
ministry, so why not with our physical bodies?
Now I'm not trying to diminish Gods
strength and power to heal us. What I am saying it that if we use the
brains God gave us, and the vitamins and minerals God gave us – we
would not suffer quite so much!
Granted. This world is a fallen, broken
world and sometimes, for reasons we know nothing about – natural
remedies fail us, that is when God can and often does step in and
either changes our perspective on life or outright heals us! Either
way – we come out better off!
Whats your thought?
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