Show Abundant Living Health Not Disease is Gods God Will By E. E Stanley Jones Joncs Per Ps 62 3 36 6 7 Matt Malt 91 91 7 7 If disease and physical disharmony are arc ours It is probable that they arc from one or more of four causes 1 actual structural structural structural tural disease brought about by heredity accidents contagion ignorance or willful abuse 2 functional disease which may pass into st structural u t r l disease brought about by wrong mental moral and spiritual attitudes attitudes attitudes atti atti- tudes 3 lack of or unbalanced nutrition brought about by poverty ignorance or willful neglect 4 environment factors which directly produce disease or wrong mental and spiritual attitudes which in turn produce disease Note that in the four sources of disease and disharmony I do not mention the will m of God God does not will disease God god od wills health Disease is an enemy which Jesus fought ought against and healed whenever He could get cooperation He never once told people to bear disease as the will of God I 1 am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly That is the Christian note It is true that disease comes from breaking breaking breaking break break- ing the laws of God which He has written into the constitution of 01 things but God does not send it we break His laws and they break us But that makes us not God the author of that disease God has provided for health not disease A friend liend once said to Dr W W. B. B Cannon the great Harvard physiologist When you know all the diseases it is possible to have something something something some some- thing over a hundred and twenty five you ou f wonder how anyone is ever well To which Dr Cannon replied When you know a great deal about the human body you wonder why anyone is sick Quoted by Dr Russell L. L Dicks Dieks Religion in Life 1911 1941 Vol X 1 No 4 p p. p The human frame fram is organized for health and if the way is cleared by right cooperation with nature will produce health Gracious Father Thou has wrought possibilities possibilities possibilities pos pos- for or he health and rhythm into the structure of my being Help me to cooperate cooperate cooperate co co- co- co operate with Thee so that no crippling disease shall mar the efficiency of my work for or the Kingdom King Help me to keep fit fit for Thee Amen From the book Abundant Living published by Abingdon Cokesbury Abingdon-Cokesbury Cokesbury Press Copyright |