Teaching health because of its impact on spirituality
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:10 pm
I am throwing some thoughts out to you all and invite you to think about these and comment and discuss teaching health to our children from this perspective.
Here goes:-
There exists an intimate relationship between the condition of the body and spiritual discernment. Anything that lessens physical strength enfeebles the mind and makes it less capable of discriminating between right and wrong. This means that every wrong habit which injures the health of the body, reacts in effect upon the mind. For the correct understanding of Bible truth we need clear, energetic minds. Wrong lifestyle habits weaken the intellectual powers. By contrast, right physical habits promote mental superiority.
These convictions are based on understanding of how God communicates His truth to humans. The part of the human body with which He interacts is the mind. The brain nerves which communicate with the entire system are the only medium through which Heaven can communicate to man and affect his inmost life. Whatever disturbs the circulation of the electric currents in the nervous system lessens the strength of the vital powers, and the result is a deadening of the sensibilities of the mind This firmly establishes the principle that there is a strong relationship between health and spirituality, making it an absolute necessity to have a clear mind when engaged in the study of God's word.
Is possible for men and womenand children , with all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-enervating habits, to discern sacred truth? These woud obviously include wrongful habits of eating .drinking ,hours that are kept and so on.
Temperance, regulates much .True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is healthful.
Here goes:-
There exists an intimate relationship between the condition of the body and spiritual discernment. Anything that lessens physical strength enfeebles the mind and makes it less capable of discriminating between right and wrong. This means that every wrong habit which injures the health of the body, reacts in effect upon the mind. For the correct understanding of Bible truth we need clear, energetic minds. Wrong lifestyle habits weaken the intellectual powers. By contrast, right physical habits promote mental superiority.
These convictions are based on understanding of how God communicates His truth to humans. The part of the human body with which He interacts is the mind. The brain nerves which communicate with the entire system are the only medium through which Heaven can communicate to man and affect his inmost life. Whatever disturbs the circulation of the electric currents in the nervous system lessens the strength of the vital powers, and the result is a deadening of the sensibilities of the mind This firmly establishes the principle that there is a strong relationship between health and spirituality, making it an absolute necessity to have a clear mind when engaged in the study of God's word.
Is possible for men and womenand children , with all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-enervating habits, to discern sacred truth? These woud obviously include wrongful habits of eating .drinking ,hours that are kept and so on.
Temperance, regulates much .True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is healthful.