We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5;8 KJV)

 Logically, of course, good health is good health. How can it possibly be bad for your health for you to be healthy?

Well, it depends. There’s absolutely no doubt that it’s wonderful to feel well. But if we are thinking that this well-being is simply a healthy material body and mind that are the outcome of eating the right food, exercising properly, sleeping the recommended number of hours per night, and being able to avoid disease, then health is vulnerable to changing circumstances—in a word, fragile.

Good health is so much more than a present report of physical wellness of body and mind. This is the report of the physical senses, telling us what our material body is or isn’t doing, while health is much more than that.  Health is not a materially defined condition but the spiritual outpouring of the divine mind, that we each inherently reflect as God’s image. And we attain this true health in practice as we yield to the consciousness of God’s allness and unopposed harmony.

So if we want to find enduring health, it’s wise to get beyond just trying to appease those unreliable material senses by adopting widely prescribed habits commonly believed to be health-giving. Turning to divine Mind, God—which is also Love, Life, and Spirit—is listening for and embodying Christ, the son and true idea of God, which brings to light our forever-established God-reflecting spiritual identity.

 We are healthy as God makes us. And we have the right at every moment to be uplifted by Christ beyond the beliefs and theories of the human mind to find health in the spiritual truth of Life, where it’s forever complete and stable.

So should we take care of our bodies? Yes. But there is a way to do so that relies on Spirit rather than matter. Proper  self-care is nurturing our knowledge of our true Identity and the God-given health it includes.  One can best care for his body when he leaves it most out of his thought, and, like the Apostle Paul, is ‘willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord’ ( 2 Corinthians 5;8)

The impact of increasingly leaving our body out of our thoughts in this way is increasing harmony in our body. Sometime in the past, I lacked money for medical treatment here in kenya, but I found bodily ailments that I had learned to live with falling away for good as I prayed and read the Bible. I found that feeling God’s presence is the pinnacle of health as well as the apex of joy, peace, and spiritual power. As the Scripture says, “to be spiritually minded is life and peace” Romans 8:6.

So, yes, so-called good health can be deceptive health if it lulls us into believing that well-being is a material state we’ve earned humanly, through heredity, or good fortune. In light of the all-spiritual Life that is the source of everyone’s real existence, any evidence of being less than healthy is illusive rather than conclusive—a belief rather than a fact. Wherever we are in the range of illusive health beliefs, we can awaken to Christ, the healing message that health is part and parcel of what we are as God’s eternal spiritual reflection. And this is provable here and now.

 Isaac Otieno was born to a schoolteacher and a peasant mother. Once he finished school he found steady jobs to be scarce in Kenya. After several years of unsteady work, he became depressed and developed a habit of drinking. By the grace of God he rededicated his life to Christ. While attending church he discovered that God had made him for a purpose. He was called to begin the ETERNAL FATHERHOOD CENTER in 2006. Isaac is married to God-given, Purity Jackline Otieno and has two grown daughters and two Grandchildren.

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