Consider a person who is in rather poor health. As Sickly is bemoaning his situation, a man appears to him in a vision and says that he has been sent to bring him health. \u00a0Sickly is delighted to hear this and asks what he must do to receive health. The man says “believe in me”. \u00a0That sounds easy, so Sickly readily agrees. Before he leaves, Sickly asks the man’s name and he replies “Exercise”. \u00a0The next morning Sickly awakes with the impression that he should walk around the block before breakfast. \u00a0Even though he knows it could be good for his health, he brushes off the impression because he just needs to believe to be healthy. \u00a0This continues for a month after which “Exercise” appears again and asks how his health is. \u00a0Sickly replies, “Just as poor as ever. \u00a0Where’s the health you promised to give me?” Exercise says, “Did you walk every morning as I put it in your mind to do?” \u00a0Sickly replies, “No – you said that I just had to believe.” \u00a0Exercise replies sternly, “If you believe in me, you will do what I tell you to do.”<\/p>\n
“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?<\/em>\u201d Luke 6:46<\/p>\n Obedience to the Lord is not optional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consider a person who is in rather poor health. As Sickly is bemoaning his situation, a man appears to him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studies.gilbertofcorvallis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}