Perhaps you are as amazed as I am when listening to the drug commercials on TV. The recitation of all the side effects, including possible death, is more than a bit disconcerting. There is one comment that caught my attention. The voice said, “Don’t take if you are allergic to it.” Like yeah! Do they have to tell us that? Are we that stupid? I guess so. Because it seems that we continually do things to which we are allergic. I see young people smoking. The human body is absolutely allergic to tobacco but people use it.
There is pride which is allergic for our characters. Most of us are guilty. Actually all the things we call sins cause some nature of allergic reaction either physically, socially, mentally or spiritually. That’s why certain things are labeled sins. There isn’t one thing good for us that is called sin, unless we are just ignorant. Tomatoes used to be thought poisonous. Now we know better. Someone must have tried to poison an enemy with a tomato and when it didn’t work we discovered they were actually good for us.
Then there are the allergic reactions that occur when we don’t do something like regular exercise. So there are sins of omission as well as sins of commission. Our bodies have been given to us to care for. The better care we give them the better we think about things and the better decisions we make. Life is obviously much better when we learn what our allergies are. We can stay away from them. Whether it is peanuts or aspirins wisdom dictates abstinence. But unfortunately we have to be told and reminded. It’s our pride. It makes us think we are immune. We aren’t.
Written by Roger Bothwell on November 14, 2013
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