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Those who know me well know that I’m into healthy living, including the food that I eat. For those who don’t know me as well, you have heard me speak of my book (God Can Heal Anything!) and booklet (You Don’t Have to be Sick), which are both about healing. In each of these, I did make mention of nutrition playing an important part of a person’s health, although in those writings, I only lightly touched on the subject. When I first came to the Lord, I was 34 years old and had lived a very hard life, one which involved a lot of abuse of my body (alcohol, drugs, and other wild living). Inviting Jesus to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior was only the beginning of the journey I’m now on, as it is also only a beginning for others who have begun their own journey with Him. I read and studied and believed God’s Word, implementing whatever I understood to do that pertained to me as I read. In realizing how much damage I’d done to my body through my previous lifestyle, I knew that I needed to better understand how to live my life more abundantly. I decided that I wanted to be healthy rather than remaining in sickness and pain. In going to a health food store and talking to the clerks, I began taking supplements and bought an herb book to study, and have since studied several others on nutrition and supplementation. Prior to my salvation, much to my dismay and shame, I had only read two books in my lifetime, “A Return to Peyton Place” and “Valley of the Dolls.” These were not exactly edifying (in fact, far from it), but it was where I was at the time. Since being saved 28 years, I have read literally hundreds of books, learning many new things I have needed for living my life more abundantly, as well as books on the subject of revival and still others on faith, miracles, healing, and also biographies of those who were well-known revivalists. Additionally, I read the Bible every day and have done so since making a commitment to God to do this in 1981, only missing maybe one or two days since that time. He has kept me close to Him all of these years since making that commitment. Over the years, I’ve meditated on a certain verse in the Bible, considering its meanings (including its placement in the chapter and book in which it was written). The verse I’m referring to today is Isaiah 1:19, which says that if we are willing and obedient, we shall eat the good of the land. I’d heard teaching from this verse years ago, being told that it takes willingness and obedience on our part in order to obtain good things of God. I began to think about the verse in a different way, however. It says that we will “eat” the good of the land. What is the good of the land? Could this verse be talking of the food that we eat? In my estimation, that can be at least one of its meanings. If we are willing (in our attitudes) and we are also obedient (in our actions), we will eat the good of the land. We will then have the resources available in order to eat the best food. What does this mean? The best food is not luxurious desserts, things made with refined sugar, or fatty foods. What is best for our bodies is fruit, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, poultry and wild caught fish (unless you’re on a certain diet for your health and you cannot eat these things). Our bodies were not made for “junk food.” Yet, the temptations are everywhere. Jesus was in all points tempted as we are, yet He was without sin (Hebrews 4:15). In studying nutrition for many years, off and on, I have learned many things about how to care for this temple of the Holy Spirit where the Spirit of God dwells (another area of our lives which requires obedience to God). Many Americans are severely dehydrated because of not drinking enough pure (filtered or bottled) water and in turn they are sick. Going to a doctor will not help them in such a case. It is only by changing their habits will they be helped. When water is needed in a person’s body, medicine won’t cure what ails them. The same is true in amending the types of food that they eat. Only a change in what is eaten will fix the problem. When I had bipolar, I needed to get proactive in my own case in order to be healed. I needed to learn about the causes of the disease (which is not only mental, but also physical) in order to understand how to remove its roots. The same is true for other ailments. Whatever we have wrong in our lives, God can fix. However, we need to make some changes in our habits, one of which may be what we eat and drink. We are told in 1 Corinthians 10:31 that whatever we eat or drink and whatever we do, we’re to glorify the Lord. Again, the verse in Isaiah says, “If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.” Could that also mean that for those who are willing and obedient, that of being obedient means that they need to amend their diets and eat healthy foods (the good of the land)? In my understanding, that’s what it could also mean. Are you willing? Will you obey whatever He says? How healthy do you want to be? Each of us has a choice in the matter, of how we choose to eat. Temptations are everywhere. However, God who lives on the inside of every born-again believer (1 John 4:4) is greater than every temptation we will ever face, and He will help us, if we are willing and will obey what He says.
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