Your Body is Self-Healing

Doctors and drugs do not heal. God did not design your body to be sick. God designed your body to be self-healing. God designed your body to heal a cut, fight the flu, combat a cold, and fend itself from all other acute and chronic diseases.

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11

There are 2 causes of illness: deficiency and toxicity. You will get sick if you are deficient in the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy. You will get sick if your body is toxic, filled with the poisons of processed foods, the poisons of incomplete digestion, and the environmental poisons that surround us.

The good news is that no matter how sick you are, no matter how long you’ve been sick, God has designed your body to be self-healing. But, you need to remove all obstacles to self-healing and you need to give your body everything it needs to achieve and maintain the highest state of health possible.

Our Body = God's Design

If we want to know how to maintain wellness, we must first understand how we are made, how our body is designed for self-healing, and what foods God created for our bodies to function properly.
Rev. George H. Malkmus

In the beginning, God designed and created all things good. He created the earth, the sky, the universe. He created the animals, and the human body. He created the human body in His likeness and breathed into the breath of life.

In the beginning, God created all things to run according to His design, establishing universal laws to govern all His Creation, according to His design.

The sun rises and sets according to His design. The earth rotates and revolves according to His design. The human body, each and every one of its 100 trillion cells, and all its systems- the circulatory, the respiratory, the lymphatic, etc, - all function according to His design, under His universal laws.

In the beginning, God also put into existence His natural laws. These laws are perfect and eternal. No one can change them.

After the 6th day, God completed His creation. He was done, finished.

“And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31

Probably the one most of us recognize is the law of gravity. Here are some more of God’s natural laws, along with a very brief description:

There are also laws of mathematics and laws of logic. And, there are laws of health that we must obey to attain the abundant health that is ours to claim.

The Laws of Health

"God's law is written by His own finger upon every nerve, every muscle, every faculty which has been entrusted to man."
Ellen G. White, August 30, 1896

However, there are natural laws governing our body and our subsequent health that are not so obvious. And, there are natural laws that some of us just don’t want to accept, so we deny them and refuse to live by them.

Here are some examples of the not-so-obvious natural laws:

• Our lungs need clean, fresh air
• Our bodies need plenty of pure water
• We need regular, frequent exposure to sunshine
• Stress and negativity can cause illness
• Our body needs exercise regularly and vigorously
• Our immune system can be strengthened or weakened by our lifestyle
• Our lymphatic system is our primary defender against viruses and bacteria
• Our body needs optimal nutrition for optimal functioning
• We truly are what we eat
• Life begins and ends at the cellular level

Failure to follow these God-given natural laws leads to illness and disease.

God has designed our body for health. Follow His natural laws for health and be blessed with health. Choose to ignore His laws and be sick. The choice is yours.

The people need to learn that the natural condition of human beings is one of health, and that every instance of sickness and suffering, unless caused by accident, is caused by some wrong doing on the part of the sufferer.
- Dr. Harriet Austin, 1850

God’s Design for Self-Healing

Here’s what happens:

First, the cut bleeds. Blood is a natural antibiotic and cleanser of the wound.

Then the platelets rush in to stop the bleeding. The platelets stick together in clumps, causing a clot. This clot works like a plug to stop blood and other body fluid from coming out.

The clot hardens and dries, becoming a scab, and forming a crust over the wound. This protects the area so the cells underneath can have time to heal.

This is what we see.

Here is what we don’t see…

Underneath the scab, new skin cells multiply to repair the wound. Damaged blood vessels are repaired, and infection-fighting white blood cells attack any germs that may have gotten into the wound. When the new layer of skin is formed, the scab falls off.

A scab usually falls off within a week or 2. If you pick at a scab, the new skin underneath can be ripped and the wound will take longer to heal and may leave a scar.

Self-healing happens not only on the outside, but inside the body, too. In fact, our body is in a constant state of repair, working 24/7 to keep us healthy!

God is good!