Do you now believe?

John 16:31

Wednesday 16 Oct
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 Reflection

Do we truly believe that what God has said in his word is

true? Faith is seen by works. When Jesus asked if they
believed, He was not just asking about intellectual assent.
True faith impacts how we live. Faith in Jesus must
transform our hearts and actions, not just our minds.

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 Temperance: 1 Corinthians 9:24-25

KJV 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 We should be at the head in

24 Know ye not that they which run the temperance reform....
in a race run all, but one receiveth The reason why many of us
the prize? So run, that ye may will fall in the time of
obtain. trouble is because of laxity
25 And every man that striveth for in temperance and
the mastery is temperate in all indulgence of appetite.
things. Now they do it to obtain a PH136 7.3
corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.
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In order to preserve health, we must practise temperance in
all things,—temperance in labor, temperance in study,
temperance in eating and drinking. Our heavenly Father
sent light on health reform to guard against the evil that
results from a debased appetite. He would have us know
how to use with discretion the good things he has provided
for us. By exercising temperance in our daily life, by loving
purity and holiness, we may become sanctified through the
truth. ST September 30, 1897, par. 6 - ST September 30,
1897, par. 7
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Intemperance in eating and drinking, intemperance in labor, intemperance in
almost everything, exists on every hand. Those who make great exertions to
accomplish just so much work in a given time, and continue to labor when their
judgment tells them that they ought to rest, are never gainers. They are living on
borrowed capital. They are expending vital force which they will need at a future
time.

When the energy they have so recklessly used, is demanded, they fail for want of
it. Physical strength is gone, and mental power unavailable. They realize that
they have met with loss. Their time of need has come, and their physical
resources are exhausted. Those who violate the laws of health will sometime
have to pay the penalty. God has provided us with constitutional force, and if we
recklessly exhaust this force by continual overtaxation, our usefulness will be
lessened, and our lives end prematurely. ST September 30, 1897, par. 8
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 Temperance: 1 Corinthians 9:25
God's people are to learn the meaning of
It is impossible for those who
temperance in all things. They are to
practice temperance in eating and give the reins to appetite to
drinking and dressing. All self-indulgence attain to Christian perfection.
is to be cut away from their lives. Before
The moral sensibilities of your
they can really understand the meaning
of true sanctification and of conformity children cannot be easily
to the will of Christ, they must, by aroused unless you are careful in
co-operating with God, obtain the the selection of their food. Many
mastery over wrong habits and practices.
17LtMs, Ms 16, 1902, par. 12
a mother sets a table that is a
snare to her family CH 114.1
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 Temperance: 1 Corinthians 9:25
Nothing that concerns the Sedentary habits, for those who can
exercise the physical organs God has given
health of the human agent is to
them, is sin. 15LtMs, Ms 44, 1900, par. 48
be regarded with indifference.
Pure water to drink and fresh air to
Our eternal welfare depends breathe invigorate the vital organs, purify
upon the use we make during the blood, and help nature in her task of
this life of our time, strength, overcoming the bad conditions of the
system.—How to Live 4:55.787. Water is
and influence. RH June 11,
the best liquid possible to cleanse the
1914, par. 9 tissues HL 187.1 - HL 187.2

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 Temperance: 1 Corinthians 9:25
There is a large class who will reject any reform movement, however KJV 1
reasonable, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite. They consult
Corinthians
taste, instead of reason and the laws of health. By this class, all who
leave the beaten track of custom and advocate reform will be 10:31
opposed, and accounted radical, let them pursue ever so consistent
a course.
31 Whether
therefore ye eat,
But no one should permit opposition or ridicule to turn him from the
work of reform, or cause him to lightly regard it. He who is imbued
or drink, or
with the spirit which actuated Daniel, will not be narrow or whatsoever ye
conceited, but he will be firm and decided in standing for the right. do, do all to the
In all his associations, whether with his brethren or with others, he
glory of God.
will not swerve from principle, while at the same time he will not fail
to manifest a noble, Christ-like patience. CTBH 55.3 - CTBH 55.4
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Two classes have been presented before me: first, those who are not living up to the light which God
has given them; secondly, those who are too rigid in carrying out their one-sided ideas of reform, and
enforcing them on others. When they take a position, they stand to it stubbornly, and carry nearly
everything over the mark.

The first class adopted the reform because some one else did. They did not obtain a clear
understanding of its principles for themselves. Many of those who profess the truth have received it
because some one else did, and for their life they could not give the reason of their faith. This is why
they are so unstable. Instead of weighing their motives in the light of eternity, instead of obtaining a
practical knowledge of the principles underlying all their actions, instead of digging down to the
bottom, and building upon a right foundation for themselves, they are walking in the light of another's
torch, and will surely fail.

The other class take wrong views of the reform. They adopt too meager a diet. They subsist upon a
poor quality of food, prepared without reference to the nourishment of the system. It is important that
food be prepared with care, so that the appetite, when not perverted, can relish it. CTBH 56.1 - CTBH
56.3

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 Temperance: 1 Corinthians 9:25
True temperance teaches us to dispense Health reform is to do among our people a work
entirely with everything hurtful and to use which it has not yet done. There are those who
judiciously that which is healthful.— LDE 81.2 ought to be awake to the danger of meat-eating,
but who are still eating the flesh of animals, thus
God is trying to lead us back, step by step, to endangering physical, mental, and spiritual health.
His original design—that man should subsist Many who are now only half-converted on the
upon the natural products of the earth. Among question of meat-eating will go from God's people
those who are waiting for the coming of the and walk no more with them. 16LtMS, Ms 86, 1901,
Lord meat eating will eventually be done away; par.18
flesh will cease to form a part of their diet. We
should ever keep this end in view and endeavor https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/14066.1005302
to work steadily toward it.— LDE 81.5 5

Thank you
Have a blessed day
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