Balanced Health

We must maintain balanced health.  Tonight we’ll discuss just three areas where balanced health will help you in your life.

Nutrition.

Spiritual Nutrition.  Your spiritual nutrition is more important than your physical nutrition, though your physical nutrition is important.

Job 23:12 “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food”.  Dan 10:2-3.  Prov 3:1-2, 7-8.  Prov 16:24.  Your spiritual health and your physical health benefit from the time you spend in the word.  1 Pet 2:2. Heb 5:12-14.  Your senses should be exercised to discern both good and evil.

Physical Nutrition.  In Gen 45:11, Joseph told his brothers, “there will I nourish thee”.  In Gen 50:21 he said, “I will nourish you”.  There’s a big difference between eating to nourish yourself and eating to feed your appetite.

Daniel decided to eat pulse and drink water rather than the king’s meat and wine.  They appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the others when they did, Dan 1:8, 12, 15.  Prov 23:2 says, “put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite”.

Some need autoimmune diets.  Others need cancer diets. You should not neglect healthy eating habits.  They are very important in the maintenance of the temple of the Holy Ghost.  Yet, don’t neglect your spiritual nutrition while concentrating on your physical nutrition.

Exercise.

Spiritual exercise.  1 Tim 4:7-8 says “exercise thyself rather unto godliness”.

Strengthen yourself in the words of God.  A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength, Prov 24:5.  Exercise yourself in those things that strengthen you spiritually.  Make these a matter of routine use just like people who exercise regularly.

Read what Paul said in 1 Cor 9:24-27.  “I keep under my body and bring it into subjection”.  He didn’t want to be a castaway (shelved in the ministry) because of poor spiritual or physical conditioning.

Physical Exercise.  “For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come”.  Physical health is important, even though your spiritual health is more important than your physical health.

Bodily exercise in moderation makes a very significant difference in the quality of your physical health.  Yet remember Ps 147:10 which says, “he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man”.  Keep it all in moderation.

Rest.

Spiritual Rest. Spiritual rest is more important than physical rest.  Is 11:2 Ps 37:4 show you the spiritual rest available to us.  You don’t want your spirit troubled by anything, 2 Cor 2:13.  We have access to rest in our labor in the yoke of Jesus Christ, Matt 11:28-30.  Take it upon you.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, Prov 17:22, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.  The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, Prov 18:14.  It’s too easy to let things get us down spiritually.

Physical Rest.  Jesus commanded physical rest for his disciples, Mk 6:31.  We need rest physically, though it doesn’t replace spiritual rest.  You must have them, both.  Take a break now and then.  Unplug.

Conclusion: be sure to maintain spiritual and physical nutrition, spiritual and physical exercise, and spiritual and physical rest.  You all be able to serve the Lord longer and better if you keep balanced health.