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16
God, Food & the Bible
Posted September 16th, 2009 @ 5:00 am by | | PrintFiled Under Food for Thought
A couple of weeks ago Jennifer posted a terrific video called Hungry? about her thoughts on the way she delights in food compared to the way she delights in God’s Word. I’m thinking that God is up to something here because there seems to be a lot of talk lately about the connection between our food and our faith. Here’s what I mean…
- We posted the Hungry? video on September 2 and began getting feedback (sorry for the pun) from women who resonated with the message.
- We also learned that our friend, Marnie Swedberg, has just published Eating with God, a 31-day challenge to assess what you eat with a spiritual mindset.
- Last week, our family packed food paks, each of which will provide a meal for a family of four for one week. Our church, Oak Hills Church, has set a goal to provide 10,000 of these food paks to our city in partnership with the Children’s Hunger Fund.
- Later in the week, we learned from a dear friend that his family is putting up the cash to fill 1,000 more of these boxes, and we’ve been invited to join them by rallying friends and neighbors to organize and pack the boxes. We love this! Keep watching. I’ll post pictures soon.
- Over the weekend, I spent some time reading about the spiritual discipline that Americans love to forget, fasting. Did you know that the Bible talks about WHEN we fast, not if? Enough said.
- Then today, I come across this post called Is Thinness Next to Godliness?, which links to a post Does God Want you to be Thin? which links to a post This New Life of Veg. You get the idea. Food is a big deal.
It’s a big deal when you don’t have enough of it, and we recently learned that one in four of the children who live here in San Antonio go to bed hungry every night. This is unacceptable.
It’s a big deal when you have too much of it because you have to confront issues of gluttony, discipline and gratitude.
Food was a big deal in the Bible too. The people got irritated with John the Baptist because they thought he ate too little, and then they got mad at Jesus because they thought He ate too much (and with all the wrong people). Jesus began His life’s work at a wedding feast and ended it by celebrating a final passover meal with His closest friends.
God’s commands about food are pretty simple.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (I Cor. 10:31)
So I’m just wondering. What do you think about God, food and the Bible? I’d love to know.
