Healthy Living

[279 words] It seems increasingly difficult to know what is and what is not good for us. When blood cholesterol levels were first identified, we were told that butter was bad for us. Now we are told that butter is better for us than margarine (trans-fatty acids, you see). Eggs were bad, now they are good (“nature’s perfect food,” some say). This preacher wonders: Will worrying about our health (what we eat, etc.) possibly lead to high blood pressure? John suggested a better approach to life. His prayer for Gaius was, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). Paul had virtually the same idea in mind when he wrote, “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…