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OWNERS MANUAL
Health Helps Part 1
By Dane and Vicki Griffin
Has your family ever purchased
a new car? It's amazing how much a manmade conglomeration of
steel, plastic, aluminum, wires, dials, gauges, hoses, rubber,
air bags, and glass can cost! While cars differ in design,
color, length, gas mileage, and a host of other factors, there's
one thing they all have in common: an owners manual.
Valuable information
Every car manufacturer provides
an owner's manual. What person would buy a new car—or even a
used one—and ignore the owner's manual? It contains very
valuable information—and advice that could save thousands of dollars
in repair bills, or even the life of the car! It lists what type
of oil to use, when to change the hoses, filters, and belts,
when to have the car serviced, and much, much more. It would be
plain foolishness to lay down thousands of dollars to buy a new
car and then ignore the manufacturer's guidelines!
More complex than cars
The human body is much more
complex than a car. We have trillion of cells that form tissues,
boners, hair, sensory and internal organs, and the chemical and
hormonal systems that operate them all. We have about 30
trillion cells, which perform an average of 10,000 chemical
functions every day. Out body is controlled and
coordinated by over 16 million neurons and 120 trillion
"connection boxes" or receptors in a complex system of
neuro-passageways. But the brain and spinal cord, which
orchestrate the whole process, weigh less than 3 pounds!
Imagine: Your body's response to just one stress situation
produces more than 1,400 known physiological reactions!
Our heart beats of 100,000
times daily to more blood 168 million miles around our body, and
we take about 23,800 breaths a day to bring about 438 cubic feet
of air to our lungs. David expressed it best when he sang,
"I will praise The; for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made: marvelous are Thy works."1
Master Designer
Some believe that we evolved by
"chance" out of a primordial2 "slime" pool.
It takes a lot of faith to believe something like that! On the
other hands, Christians believe the Bible when it says, "It
is [God] that hath made us."3 In other words, there is a
Master Designer, an all intelligent, all powerful God who
created the marvelous human machine. And just as we might
expect, He has left us an Owner's Manual—a detailed guide to
show us how to care for His creation. Over and over again as
science has investigated the incredibly complex human machine,
it has confirmed the health principles recorded in this Owner's
Manual we know as the Bible.
God wants you to be happy
God wants you to be healthy,
happy and well-balanced. And so, in the Bible, He not only gives
valuable principles of how to relate to Him, but also instructions
for what to eat and drink, how to work and play, and much
much more! As your Master Designer, He knows that if you choose
to ignore these principles, you risk disease, stress, and
depression.
Remember: God is not some
uncaring being, sitting in Heaven watching you blunder through
life. He has a plan for you, and a desire! It's found in 3 John
2: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou prosper and
be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
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1. Psalm 139:14
2. Of the earliest ages
3. Psalm 100:3
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