God’s Workmanship
1. God is the owner of the whole man. Soul, body, and spirit
are his. God gave his only begotten Son for the body as well as the
soul, and our entire life belongs to God, to be consecrated to his
service, that through the exercise of every faculty he has given, we
may glorify him.—The Youth’s Instructor, September 7, 1893.
2. From the first dawn of reason the human mind should become
intelligent in regard to the physical structure of the body. Here
Jehovah has given a specimen of himself; for man was made in the
image of God.—Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897.
3. The living organism is God’s property. It belongs to him by
creation and by redemption; and by a misuse of any of our powers we
rob God of the honor due him.—Unpublished Testimonies, August
30, 1896.
4. We are God’s workmanship, and his word declares that we
are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” He has prepared this living
habitation for the mind; it is “curiously wrought,” a temple which
the Lord himself has fitted up for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 33.
[10] 5. The very flesh in which the soul tabernacles, and through
which it works, is the Lord’s—Unpublished Testimonies, October
12, 1896.