Eating for the Glory of God

I am starting my new connection groups this week. We are “Running for a change.” Pun intended. I am doing some research and study on diet and exercise in the bible and am reading a book called Body by God by an Olympic wrestling trainer Dr. Ben Lerner. WOW! This is one that has been sitting on my shelf for a year or two. Great book.

He makes a point that really struck me. Food has been an issue for us as humans for a long time. I was thinking over history we have either had issues with having to little or we have had issues with having too much. Think of all the stories in the bible that involve food and the trials and tribulations that come with its pursuit.

Adam and Eve in the garden were on a strict diet. Don’t eat these two fruits. They were persuaded to eat what was not on there diet plan. Ever since then we have had issues. I have never read that passage and thought about how the negative of Adam and Eve sinning with there mouths has effected us as a human race ever since. I think about the Lambs Supper in heaven and I realize that it will not be about food. Food has so much destructive force in our society. I am just now realizing its hold on me and in my life. Think about when we eat as a society? We eat to celebrate, we eat to sympathize, and we eat to entertain… We eat for the wrong reasons. I am thinking about how our whole lives are to be in submission to the will and plans of our father and that we are to be in obedience to him.

What would our eating look like if we were eating for the Glory of God?