The Creator’s design for us is for our wellbeing. It is what the Bible is about. And he created within the natural world natural nutrition. "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 (best), and let your soul delight itself in fatness." Isaiah 55:2. Fatness is abundance.
When His people
would not choose well, they hurt themselves. "He should have fed them also
with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have
satisfied you." (Psalm 81:16). "O Israel, you have destroyed
yourself; but in Me is your help." (Hosea 13:9) "He makes peace
in your borders and fills you with the finest of the wheat." (Psalm
147:14)
His people went astray,
and he invited them back to Him using their health and beauty as an incentive:
"And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine
linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and
you were exceedingly beautiful." Ezekiel 16:13.
If a loaf of bread says “Whole grain, Multi
grain” it may also include bleached, white degermed flour for a longer shelf
life. If the manufacturer has leeway to mark things deceptively, we should know.
This Link clarifies the differences: https://www.naturespath.com/en-us/blog/difference-whole-grain-whole-wheat/.
Food eaten as naturally
as possible enhances health: fruit, vegetables, nuts, natural olive oil,
grassfed beef, milk, cheese, and honey. Exodus 3:17. Protein is there also,
eaten at the feasts from sacrifices described in the Old Testament.
Food and Faith in our
Creator. Could this be a key toward better health? My thinking
process turned to logic: our Creator has given us food grown from the earth,
whole grains, fruit, and herbs. Food mined (salt) from deep in the earth, protein
from grazing animals, fish from the sea and lakes.
Now, as Eric, my husband
and I read the Old and New Testaments every day, we notice food used as
illustrations. It is literal and figurative: Jesus is “the bread of life.” Since
the beginning, for thousands of years food grown, protein raised naturally,
fish in lakes and oceans was provided from creation.
"He made him ride on
the high places of the earth, so that he might eat the increase of the fields.
And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty
rock, butter from cows, and milk from sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the sons of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat. And you drank
the blood of the grape." Deuteronomy 32:13,14. God and the
Prophet Jeremiah interacting: “That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to
give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, so be it, O
LORD.” Jeremiah 11:5.
The Bible includes
important food as a way of teaching spiritual truth "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. Look for “milk and honey” in Scripture.
This is not spiritual
teaching alone. It is a profound message from God to those who accept the
literal and figurative message to us.
Take seriously the food the
Bible continues to mention. This morphs into a deep understanding of our loving
Creator’s care. "And Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It is written, ‘That man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’’" Luke 4:4. Literally
and figuratively.
