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God Desires Self-control for Our Mental Health ㅡ

 “The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.” (Proverbs 15:14).

Many do not earnestly seek to understand the lessons found in God′s Word.

They lay aside the Bible, and allow their minds to become engrossed with the cheap reading found in books of fiction, newspapers, and magazines.

The pernicious practice of story reading is one of the means employed by Satan to destroy souls.

The mind that is occupied with exciting stories loses all relish for solid reading.

I am acquainted with many sad examples of the evil effects of this baneful practice.

The more they indulged the appetite for this kind of mental food, the greater was the demand.

The imagination constantly craved its accustomed stimulus, as the inebriate longs for his wine or tobacco.

Their mental and moral powers were weakened and perverted.

They lost their interest in the Scriptures, and their relish for prayer; and they were as truly ruined, mentally and spiritually, as is the liquor drinker or the tobacco devotee.

Novel readers are mental inebriates; and they need to sign a pledge of total abstinence as verily as does the victim of any other form of intemperance.

 (Our High Calling 275)

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