Articles Heaven's Healing - How to Change?
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HOW TO CHANGE?
Address Your Health or It Will Address You
The harvest of our lifestyle habits inevitably reaps itself in the condition of our health. If we choose not to change bad habits‚ we are as the man hiding in the cave pretending to be free when really in bondage to the inevitable. Delay is the worst enemy for reform. Examine where you fail‚ and then commence the work of reform earnestly without delay. Efforts should be made to preserve carefully the remaining strength of the vital forces‚ by lifting off every transgression of God’s physical and moral laws. The timing of your reform will tell in favor of your success; delay and neglect is more likely to result in failure. Those who endeavor to live healthfully are rewarded for their efforts by enjoying happiness and good health. The only real difficulty lies in overcoming the inherited and acquired bad habits. However‚ after one has changed his habits by cooperating with the power of God‚ it is very rewarding. Ask For the Grace of God If you are sick and want to recover‚ the change must be complete. Ask in faith for the strength of character needed to make the reform and the Lord will give you the power to will and the power of self-control. We need to learn that the blessings of obedience‚ in their fullness‚ can be ours only as we receive the grace of Christ. It is His grace that gives us power to obey the laws of God. It is this that enables us to break the bondage of evil habits. This is the only power that can make us and keep us steadfast in the right path. Remember that an “all or nothing” mentality is the way to defeat. If you are unable to do everything always‚ do not fret. It is not the occasional too little exercise or too little sunlight or too little rest‚ and it is not the occasional big amount of exercise or salad that makes the difference. It is not the odd too much or too little of the right and wrong practices but the habitual tendency throughout your lifetime that determines good health. Every step you take towards health will do you good. If you slip‚ do not quit. Good Health is a Habit‚ Not an Event One of the differences between people and animals is the way they acquire behavior patterns. Animals follow instinct. This knowledge and behavior is inherited by the animal. In contrast‚ man has few instincts‚ although tendencies are inherited. Most of what we do‚ we do because we learnt it somewhere. Through various learning processes we acquire habits. Habits are convenient‚ since once we establish them‚ we don't have to deliberate about everything we do. The good news is‚ once we follow a healthy lifestyle for long enough‚ it will become a habit whereby the very habit will keep us in track‚ with much less effort and planning on our side. |
In Beijing in 2006‚ a Chinese man‚ wanted by police on gun charges‚ gave himself up after hiding in a cave constructed at the back of his house for eight years! The 35-year-old man had tunneled the cave out of a hill behind the bedroom of his house and had put a wardrobe in front of the entrance as a disguise. After eight years‚ in spite of the possibility of a death sentence‚ the man finally gave himself up to police after no longer being able to cope with the "psychological pressure."