FOOD
BY FAITH
Instruction
for Health and Nutrition is all through the Bible.
There is good news. 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 and degermed grains and a listed “ingredient” called “natural flavor”?
(So called “natural flavor” is a lie). 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 call from childhood…for a lifetime. It is a “Way” which is
hopeful because the Bible is correct in every respect. Spiritual food and
physical food have similarities: one is for the spirit and soul, the other for
the body. God promised over and over to bring His people into a land flowing
with milk and honey. Here is an example of abundant spiritual and physical
nourishment. When Scripture highlights food it can apply to our whole person:
“I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
coming of our LORD Jesus Christ…;” (I Thessalonians 5:23). One type of food
(spiritual) teaches about the other type (physical), but also the other way
around.
Instruction
for Health and Nutrition is all through the Bible.
There is good news. 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 and degermed grains and a listed “ingredient” called “natural flavor”?
(So called “natural flavor” is a lie). 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 call from childhood…for a lifetime. It is a “Way” which is
hopeful because the Bible is correct in every respect. Spiritual food and
physical food have similarities: one is for the spirit and soul, the other for
the body. God promised over and over to bring His people into a land flowing
with milk and honey. Here is an example of abundant spiritual and physical
nourishment. When Scripture highlights food it can apply to our whole person:
“I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
coming of our LORD Jesus Christ…;” (I Thessalonians 5:23). One type of food
(spiritual) teaches about the other type (physical), but also the other way
around.
A dependable God given way to eat and live!
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