This is a funny video by my favorite Christian comedian, Tim Hawkins. It goes along great with something that Hallelujah Acres’ George Malkmus wrote:
That God would take His highest and most complex creation – our physical bodies – and turn them over to the likes of sinful man to be caretakers of, and be responsible for the maintaining of, is extremely humbling to this editor.
Listen to these sobering words found in I Corinthians 3:10:
“According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.”
The discourse continues in I Corinthians 3:16-17:
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in YOU? If any man defile [harm] the temple of God [physical body], him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
I Corinthians 6:19-20 expands on the thought:
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
And that brings us to these concluding pleas in Romans 12:1:
“I beseech YOU therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
How to present our bodies a living sacrifice is set forth in Romans 12:2:
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
The World Does Not Have the Answers to Physical or Spiritual Life
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God … .” (I Corinthians 3:19)
And again,
“The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men.” (I Corinthians 4:19-21)
“Better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” (Psalm 118:8)
Here is proof that the world does not have the answers.
“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.” (Mark 5:25-26)
The results of going the world’s way with our physical problems have not improved in the over 2,000 years since these words in Mark 5:25-26 were spoken. Yet in spite of the obvious inability of the world to restore our health, we continue to look to the world which God has already told us does not have the answer.
Why Do We Put Our Trust In Doctors And Dieticians?
My grandma and grandpa on my mother’s side were farmers in upstate New York. They grew their own food by the sweat of their brow. They cut their own wood to provide heat in their wood-burning stoves because they didn’t have electricity. They pumped their own water from a well across the road and carried it into the house by the bucket full each day. They had no running water and had to use an outhouse.
They did not depend on the world’s dietitians for instruction as to how to nourish their physical bodies, nor did they go to doctors when they got sick – because they didn’t get sick. Nor did they take any medications. Nor did they have Health Insurance, Life Insurance, or Social Security, yet they lived healthily and frugally to a ripe old age.
Currently, many in our nation are clamoring for government to take care of their physical bodies through a government controlled and run Health Care program, thinking government can restore health to physical bodies they have failed to maintain and nourish properly.
Dear friends, government, no matter how much money it spends, cannot prevent sickness nor restore health to anyone, because God has given each of us as individuals that responsibility:
“I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:1-2)
Maintaining Health Is Our Responsibility – Not God’s Nor Government’s
Attaining and maintaining a healthy body requires not only nourishing it with healthy food, and providing it with abundant sunshine and exercise, but it also requires our avoiding the polluting of our body with toxic substances.
Source: http://healthtip.hacres.com/index.php/2010/03/23/mans-physical-body-most-complex-of-all-gods-creations/
