A surprise waited for me when I began to research food mentioned in the Bible. It was a stunning revelation that when food is mentioned, it often gives instruction about your spirit and soul in a figurative sense. The assumption when food is part of a passage in Scripture, it is that this is good for your body. It is healthful. "Who satisfies thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." (Psalm 103:5). The wisdom is high, wide, and broad: learn about what is best for your body and the wisdom goes further to your spirit and soul.
"For
the word of God is quick (to live), and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing (to penetrate) even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart..." (Hebrews 4:12,13).
God has written to us what the essence of health can be in
the pages of the Bible! Though the nudge to health is here, God has the final
“say” about you and your life and health and future…even how long you live!
Here is the Way to eternal life, through Jesus.
It is a package deal: the Bible gives the way to success for your whole life
here and now. Begin with The Ten Commandments. Continuing, Scripture shows the
way to contentment, peace, joy. Why would Scripture not also show us the best
Plan for health! Food that is health building is figurative and the real thing:
real food. “Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price.
Wherefore do
ye spend money for that
which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness. Incline your ear, and come
unto me: hear, and your soul shall live…” Isaiah 55:1-3.
We must choose our way every day. A Christian, a believer who has
eternal life lives a potentially fulfilling, useful life, but it is not
possible to do it alone. We need the wisdom and Presence of the Holy Spirit
guiding us. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things..." Jesus. (John
14:26).
"Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble
knees; And make straight paths (level, direct) for your feet, lest that
which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed." (Hebrews
12:12,13).
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