If we want to be spiritually healthy, we must accept Paul’s “healthy” teaching about salvation – namely, that everyone needs saving, we can’t save ourselves, and only Jesus can save us. All spiritual health is built on this foundation.
To Know Him and Make Him Known
Sermons on Faith (Page 5)
We become spiritually unhealthy when we choose to follow leaders with awful teaching and despicable character. Before long we find ourselves consumed with the wrong priorities, focusing on worthless distractions instead of our true purpose as believers in Jesus.
It’s easy to lose our motivation to be spiritually healthy, isn’t it? In those moments, we need outside help, and the apostle Paul is the perfect person to serve as our personal spiritual trainer. His qualifications are impeccable and his heart is driven by a desire to see us succeed- let’s listen to him!
Daniel and his friends maintaining a private faith in God is not that amazing… The amazing thing is that they maintained a high-profile, public witness for God in a hostile environment.