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do you do Most of us are alert to things that could endanger our physical health, but how vigilant

are we about our spiritual well-being?

Today, I'm Truth for Life.

Alistir Begg identifies some threats to spiritual wholeness

and explains why these threats ought to be taken even more seriously

than physical dangers.

There's seldom a week goes by without being told by the experts of something else which

poses a threat to our physical well-being. Newspapers and magazines have it on a regular

basis that are a number of things that I've identified at the grocery store

check out that are just about definite on the front of these magazines.

Some of them I'm not prepared to mention but one of them at the moment is an overwhelming

preoccupation with our physical well-being. Not that that is in itself wrong, but it is an

interesting emphasis. And so it is that we discover on a regular basis something else that

we shouldn't be doing, somewhere else we shouldn't

be going, somewhere else we shouldn't be eating if we want to stay alive for the next year or

so at least. But for everyone who gets into it there are more than a few who

immediately employ what I call the grandfather response, namely, well you never met my grandfather, because my grandfather, he didn't even like carrots

and he never ate many of them and he certainly didn't squeeze them and drink them.

In point of fact, my grandfather smoked like a chimney. My grandfather

gorged himself on fatty substances and at the same time he drank alcohol like a fish and he lived to the ripe old age of 39.

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