Nigeria, May 19 -- Nigeria is facing a quiet health crisis. Across cities, towns, campuses, offices, churches, and marketplaces, more people are developing hypertension, stroke, diabetes, and other cardiovascular conditions that were once considered illnesses of old age. Today, they are striking younger people with frightening speed.

Yet the greatest threat to many Nigerians may not simply be poor healthcare or economic hardship. It may be the dangerous voices, cultural, social, and psychological, that persuade people to neglect their health while believing they are being practical, resilient, or socially acceptable.

The Book of Job opens with one of Scripture's most remarkable scenes: a conversation in heaven where Satan questions Job...