The food we choose to consume on a daily basis is important to our health, wellbeing, and way of living. What we choose to consume can affect our physical health, how we feel, and even the planet. The serpent first came into the garden to deceive Adam and Eve by persuading them to eat a forbidden fruit. This is important to understand that there were some foods that were made to be eaten and there were some foods that were never meant to be eaten. The fruit which the serpent tempted Eve and Adam to eat was food able to make one wise and have the knowledge of both good and evil being like God. Similarly some foods have the ability to bring youth and vitality while other foods have the ability to clog the mind & blood circulation.
Eve ate the fruit because of the desire to have the power to be like God. She saw the fruit was good to eat. She used all her senses to determine that the fruit was good to eat. Choice foods resemble God's essence. Since the beginning God ordered that man eat the fruit of the trees that yields seed. God also added every herb that yields seed, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were not to eat.
Food is great. I love food yet I love God far more. Knowing the word of God precisely is important in our relationship and daily walk with God. The serpent was able to trick Eve into eating the forbidden fruit because Eve did not know the word of God precisely. Therefore, know the word of God precisely for your selves so that food cannot compromise our relationship with God. Know the absolute truth and do not depart from it. Trust the word of God having an intimate personal relationship with God.
One of the deadly sins is gluttony. Too much of the wrong foods can compromise ones health. Gluttonous habits can cause a person to overeat, consume the wrong foods, and be greedy in their eating. Be vigilant, be strong, and do not bow down to the temptation of food not even for a morsel of bread. One of the temptations Satan gave Jesus while he was on the mountain, was tempting Jesus to turn a rock into bread knowing that Jesus was on a 40 day fast. This is interesting, for bread if consumed in high quantities and not afterwards burned off with proper diet and exercise can turn into, similarly, rock, clogging circulation and becoming like plaque in arteries. Amazingly, Jesus trusted God and departed from temptation. His discipline in fasting and trust in God's word had a purpose.
Being tempted to eat and kill animals for food was not God's original food consumption plan. Fruit was meant to be the meat and food. Killing animals for food consumption affects animals, animal populations, and the cycle of life on the planet. Animal birth rates cannot compete with human hunger.
Many plagues came upon those who were not God's people in the Bible. This was called pestilence which is similar to an epidemic disease. A simple lifestyle can prove if you are God's people and this goes back to what God said since the beginning on how we ought to live our lives. The mandate and commandments have already been given. May we form unique personal relationship with God that we may clearly hear God speaking to us.
What we speak and what comes out of our mouths is as equally important as what goes into our mouths. May we both speak good things and eat good things for we eat our words just as much as the foods we eat become our living cells of our body. Therefore, be wise and seek God in honor, truth, and wisdom.
The blood covenant is very important in that every sin can be forgiven by the baptizing of water, prayer, and fasting. The blood covenant is like a seal proving the truth of God in our lives. The blood of Jesus determines how we live our lives. May we be cleansed by the blood and forgiven of every sin committed. May we be baptized with the purging of water in all supplication and in spirit. May we eat consciously and do every good thing God has called us to do. May we live in spirit and in truth and not by the flesh, Edifying ourselves daily in the word of God.
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