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Reformed Church
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Rev. Roger Gaiwicks
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From The Minister's Study THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1985. PAGE 17.
Spiritual health as important as bodily health, minister says
BY PASTOR DOUG ZEHR
BRUSSELS MENNONITE
FELLOWSHIP
"We can do without rice. We can
do without sleep. But we cannot
do without the teaching and
discipling programs of Christian
broadcasting."
This letter of response to a radio
broadcast caught my attention.
One reason it did was because I try
to monitor the work and response
of the program of a para-church
agency which does similar work as
one dimension of our church's
international media work.
Another reason it caught my
attention was because I didn't
recognize the spirit of the letter as
being very Canadian. Now it
wasn'tjustthe rice connection, but
rather it had to do with the inner
hunger that underlines the written
words. Where did the author live?
It could hardly have been in rural
southwestern Ontario. Nor could it
be the large metropolitan horse-
shoe. Perhaps it was some north-
ern wasteland or other desolate
place.
Actually the spirtual hunger that
these lines represent is hard to find
in this land of plenty. We have
much of this world's material
blessings and yet the complaints of
how tough life is are commonplace.
Do we really understand what are
the essentials of life? Within us
there seems to be a drive for more
and more, bigger and better. It is
truly difficult to be able to divide
our true needs from what are
simply our wants.
I think that it was Thomas
Aquinas who said, "Within every
soul there is a restless thirst for
happiness." But what is it that will
make us truly happy? A quick
glance through a particular wish
book of the season, is a real eye
opener, or should I say a pocket
book deflator. The price of our
'toys' is shocking. We are so
fortunate we have so much, and yet
there is so much discontent,
boredom, and unhappiness.
I would like to be so bold as to
suggest that we are actually
looking in the wrong places for
truly satisfying happiness. The
quote response above actually
came from China. But no matter
where it comes from, it represents
a sincere and honest desire to have
the restless thirst within quench-
ed. Food and sleep are secondary
to the great priority of spiritual
health.
It is interesting, perhaps path-
eticly so, that the condition of our
spiritual interest is deeply dis-
tressing. The temperature of our
spiritual interest leaves us cold and
lifeless. It is truly not well with our
souls.
When our spiritual lives are
neglected we are not experiencing
wholeness. Spiritual wholeness
has to do with our relationship to
God. It was Jesus who is quoted as
saying, "Watch out1 Be on your
guard against all kinds of greed; a
man's life does not consist in the
abundance of his possessions." At
the core of our spiritual health is
our relationship to Jesus Christ.
Faith, hope and love are the three
essential ingredients in our rela-
tionship to Him.
Without faith, spiritual health is
impossible. Christian faith is a
life-transforming trust in Jesus
Christ that we express by taking
His invitation seriously and follow-
ing Him.
Faith is operative or demon-
strated through love. It is love
which moves the spirit within us to
seek the peace and wholeness of
others, not only ourselves. When
we enjoy spiritual health we will be
in loving relationships with others.
In order to live in loving
relationships with the rest of
humanity requires hope. Hope
which includes both a dimension of
waiting patiently as well as
working diligently. We wait on God
while we 'live', or better, 'work' in
anticipation of God's kingdom of
peace and love and justice.
Spiritual health is both a gift
from God and a discipline to which
we commit ourselves. It includes
prayer, a commitment to live in
Christian community and growth
in the grace and knowledge of
Jesus Christ.
Perhaps it is time for us all to
check our spiritual health. What is
your spiritual temperature?
The church needs you!
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