Look at this list of foods: Apple juice or apple-flavored juice. Grapes or grape-flavored bubblegum. Fresh roasted chicken breast or chicken bouillon cubes. Peanuts or
peanut butter-flavored taffy. Carrots or carrot cake. Which of these foods are the healthiest? Who made those healthier foods?
God created our bodies. God also created food for us to eat. He even described the vest diet for us in His word.
First, in Genesis 1:29 & 30 God gave us all the plants of the world for food. This includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains. This was God’s perfect diet for us.
Later, after sin tainted the world, God chose to expand our diet to include meat. Genesis 9:3 tells us about that saying, “Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” God knows best what foods to
give us to help keep our bodies healthy and working well.
Just as a car needs gasoline and won’t run properly on diesel fuel or sugar water, our bodies need the proper foods to fuel them. Occasional treats are fine but we need to focus our diet on the foods that God custom-created for our bodies.
I hope you will feed your body the way God intended.
Pray with me.
Heavenly Father, thank You for creating so many wonderful foods for me to eat. Help me to remember to feed my body well. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Related Scripture:
Genesis 1:29 & 30 – “Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.”
Genesis 9:3 & 4 – “Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 & 20 – “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
1 Corinthians 9:27 – “No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
1 Corinthians 3:16 & 17 – “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.”
Proverbs 25:27 – “It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.”
Daniel 1:8-20 – “ Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility – young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians, The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king’s service.
Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. Now God had caused the official to show favorand compassion to Daniel, but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your[c] food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”
Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” So he agreed to this and testedthem for ten days.
At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understandingof all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service. In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.”