| Health and Healing Hospital Accidents (The following are guidelines and suggestions not rules or laws) Accidents don’t just happen without a reason.—Especially not to Christians, God’s children who love Him. For example, catching a cold: They are usually either brought on through carelessness or simply because you didn’t take the necessary precautions to prevent them. Most accidents do not just “happen” – they are caused! If you avoid the conditions that cause accidents, then you’ll avoid most accidents. The rest, of course, God has to do, because the Devil can attack you with illnesses and accidents that are beyond your ability to avoid. To stay away from trouble is the best way to prevent it, like the story told about the drivers who applied for a job as a chauffeur for a rich man. He put them all through a test, asking them to see how close they could drive to the edge of a precarious cliff safely. So each of these expert drivers drove the limousine as close to the edge as he could, very cleverly and skillfully and carefully without falling over the edge. Finally as the last driver got in and, after staring up the limousine, veered way over to the opposite side of the road from the precipice and drove as far away from the edge as he possibly could. The rich man said, “You’ve got the job! That’s how to drive safely close to the edge!—Don’t drive anywhere near it!” How do you prevent accidents?—By making it impossible for them to happen, by totally avoiding dangerous conditions or circumstances as much as possible! Medicines, Doctors and Hospitals Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, a noted American doctor from Chicago, wrote recently, “I dearly wish that someday a drug would come onto the market which actually cured the condition for which it was prescribed and which had no side effects or adverse reactions. But unfortunately, as I learned long ago, when chemicals are put into the body, their effects cannot be limited to merely the area for which they are intended. A medication that acts on one system will usually affect other systems as well, and while one disease condition may be cured by use of a drug, another disease may be activated!” “Hospitals are the last place a person should go. You can pick up germs from the sick people who frequent public hospitals, that you can’t get anywhere else in town!”—Dr. Robert Mendelsohn. Most people these days have gotten so accustomed to taking medicines, pills etc., that the whole idea of experimental chemical drugs seems perfectly “natural” and “normal” to them. But medicine can be regarded the same way as accidents: The best way to avoid accidentally getting the wrong medicine or the wrong dose of medicine that will hurt you is just don’t take any! The Lord is able to heal you from anything, if you have the faith to trust Him! God’s healing is not only safer and surer, but it’s also far less expensive. If you need healing, please read our article “Healing In His Wings,” which can tell you how to obtain God’s healing in your life! Doctors do have a place when it comes to the mechanical things like fixing broken bones etc. But when it comes to the chemical, experimental drugs, when they honestly don’t know what the trouble is, but are just trying one medicine after another on you, then you’re on dangerous ground, because they could do more damage than good. written by David Berg Continue on to the Conclusion of Basic Bible Health Or back to Exercise and Sleep or to Accidents and Doctors |