Show Abundant Living Moral Spiritual Basis of Disease B By E. E Stanley Jones Isa I G 14 6 Ps 5 10 5 5 The ph physical basis of disease is is' is isso so obvious and insistent that we need not emphasize it it-it it it emphasizes itself itsel Nor need we emphasize its effects upon the spiritual condition The idea that you can be more spiritual if your body is mortified Is false If that is tried the body kicks back and clouds the soul so mortified bodies produce morbid saints and they are usually more morbid than saintly The surgeon Burgeon with his scalpel who lacerates the flesh in order to restore health helps to produce more saintliness than the would-be would saint who lacerates the body in order to product saintliness To the effect of the physical upon the spiritual we increasingly agree But the theother theother other truth truth the the effect of the mental and spiritual upon the physical physical physical-is is insufficiently emphasized One lady puts her case this way I was informed that there was very little organically wrong with me and that my mental state was causing my trouble I had lost weight steadily in spite of medication medi medi- cation My mind had become so bad I was afraid to go out by myself and I avoided meeting people But a remarkable change has taken place in my life and my health has steadily improved My husbands husband's love for me is growing stronger each day The Lord is truly transforming our home from froma a morgue to a sanctuary From a morgue to a sanctuary Not only are many homes morgues many bodies are they are they harbor death cells of anger fear self centeredness and guilt Many a person instead of having a living vibrant brant body awake in every cell and harmonious in every relationship has a body of death The body of death can become a sanctuary The liThe first concept I had that God could heal a body wrung dry of all ability to resist disease came from your book The Christ of the Indian Road a reader confesses con con- The leaven of your ideas was re responsible responsible responsible re- re for the metamorphosis of a lump of clay to a seeker after truth A body wrung dry of all ability to resist disease a Christian has no business with that kind of body O 0 God if my mind and my body are wrung dry of the ability to resist disease then give to me what Paul meant when he said that our mortal bodies would be quickened quickened quickened quick quick- ened by the Spirit that dwells within thin us Let me be quickened quickened Amen From the book Abundant Living Living- published by Cokesbury Abingdon-Cokesbury Press Copyright |