这几天我们谈到一个重要观念，就是我们的生活态度对健康有着重要和决定性的影响，今天，我想继续这个话题。有一位医生告诉我，他收到每一期的《与耶稣同行》都会很快地浏览一遍，看看有没有任何文章，是谈及态度与健康之间的关系的──这是我最常讨论的题目──然后就订一些给他那些需要改变态度的病人。有一次他写信给我说：「如果可以的话，请再继续研讨这个主题，你不知道你对我的医学工作有多大的帮助。」

《英国医学杂志》（British Medical Journal）有一篇文章写道：「身体没有一个组织或器官，是不受意志和灵性的态度所影响的。」人是由灵、魂、体所组成的，没有可能其中一部分病了，其他部分会不受影响的。因此，我们所持守的态度不仅仅是态度的问题，牠们对健康有一定程度的影响。

神设计我们，是让正确的态度在我们身体里产生正面的影响，如果我们的态度所产生的是不良的影响，那么身体和道德便会变得格格不入。一位出色的外科医生说：「我在自己的手术刀末端──软组织里面，发现了神的国度。道德上的正确往往也是身体上的正确。」道德的法则和健康的法则都是由同一位神、为了同一个目的而写成的，那就是健康和快乐的生活。

We are still focusing on this important thought that our attitudes play an important and determinative part in our physical health. One doctor told me that immediately he receives the current edition of Every Day with Jesus, he quickly scans it to see if I have written anything along the line of the relationship between attitudes and health - a favourite topic of mine - and then orders a small supply for those of his patients who need to have their attitudes changed. He wrote to me on one occasion and said: "Keep coming back to this subject every time you can - you just don't know how much good you are doing in my medical practice."

According to an article in the British Medical Journal, "there is not a tissue or an organ in the body that is not influenced by the attitude of mind and spirit". Man is a unit made up of spirit, soul and body, and he cannot be sick in one part without passing on the sickness to other parts. The attitudes we hold in our minds do not stay merely as attitudes - they pass over into definite physical effects.

God has so designed our beings that the right attitudes produce the right effects in our bodies. Suppose they produced the wrong effects. Then the body and morality would be alien to one another. An outstanding surgeon said: "I've discovered the kingdom of God at the end of my scalpel, it's in the tissues. The right thing morally is always the right thing physically" The laws of morality and the laws of health are written by the same God for the same purpose - healthy and happy living.