Instruction
for Health and Nutrition is all through the Bible.
There is good news. Are you ready? All our food can be
good, healthful, nourishing, energizing. It is there, coming from the earth,
the trees, the vine, coming from rain from heaven. But of late, if we have been
hurting ourselves because we are taking the “wide road” with devitalized food. Why just quick and easy? Why processed food,
chemical additives, devitalized, bleached grains and addictions? It is making
us unhealthy, sick; making us less than we want to be and can be. There is
another way.
This “other way” has been a profound subject for me, too high, too
broad, and too deep. At the same time, the worthiness and fascination of it
calls me. It has been for a lifelong but more so lately. I believe this is a
“Way” because the Bible is correct in every respect. It is about spiritual food
and physical food. What has been inspiring as I study the subject is that one
type of food (spiritual) teaches about the other type (physical), but also the
other way around.
The Bible has profoundly influenced my life because from
the first day I was born, and every day thereafter, my father and mother with
their family of eight children read the Bible aloud together every day. Seven
siblings and I learned to read this way. It influenced me, and even before I
realized, it directed my life. By my twenties, my health pursuits became an
adventure primarily because of Scripture.
At one point I traveled to Texas. I could type well
and got a job at Link-Temco-Vought (LTV) in Dallas. There all the ways of the culture came up,
including food and alcohol. Instead of going rogue, I decided to follow
the Bible already planted in my head and heart. My spirit, soul and body needed
to be fed. I saw good food described in Scripture. For example, Ezekiel’s bread. God told
Ezekiel, "Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils,
and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
thereof..." (Ezekiel 4:9). Food is also figurative, "And Jesus said
to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he
that believes on me shall never thirst." (John 6:35).
The Bible has vital information about food and health sprinkled
all the way through. We can go to it with certainty. Here is dependable wisdom
and knowledge because our Creator wrote it all. It is the “bottom line” in
nutritional wisdom. “For the
prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2 Peter 1:21).
The more
you learn about nutritious food, its value to your health, the more you will enjoy
it. Get it into your head and heart. Once convinced, eating knowledgably,
eating wisely becomes a habit. Habitually eat what is good, you will soon look
forward to it, even crave it. Grab salted almonds or a crisp apple and cheddar
cheese or grapes. Two pieces of Ezekiel Bread, available in grocery stores
(freezer section), with butter heated in the microwave for 30 seconds, then
honey added, with it a half cup of grass-fed milk is one effective way to begin
the day. Alternate with your simple homemade Granola. You and your body are
happy.
"And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that
they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat
that is left in the land." (Isaiah 7:22).
Put together an aromatic loaf of whole wheat bread for yourself in
little more than an hour (see Chapter two). Make beef meatloaf with old
fashioned oats, onion, and salt. Healthy things become desirable. Whole wheat
blonde brownies with whip cream are good. All the desserts have one or more: whole
wheat flour, butter, olive oil, honey, maple syrup or raw sugar.
All of us desire good health, satisfying food for our spirit, soul,
and body. Is this physical or figurative? The Holy Spirit calls to us in Isaiah
55:1: "Ho, every one that thirsts, come to the waters, and he that has no
money; come, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread?
and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently to me, and eat
that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness." (Isaiah
55:1,2).
Finding what is healthy and good and pleasing to God, and you, are
what this book is about. Feeling better. Looking better. Being wise. By achieving
goals of weight, physical endurance and knowledge, this pursuit has been an
adventure.