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Food

September

As more and more people find themselves visiting doctors more often for ailments
and checking into local hospitals for occasional, painful flare-ups, they may start looking
at their lifestyle habits to examine the cause of their problems. As Christians, we place
our faith in God to take care of us, to strengthen us, and comfort us as children of God.
However, God supplied us with brains with which to think and reason. God also
gave us the Ten Commandments and Bible story after story as examples of why the Ten
Commandments are a good idea to follow. In Genesis 1:29, God said, “See, I have given
you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose
fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.” (NKJV).
Upon returning from a convention where many of the 170 persons stood up and told
how, by eating a plant based diet (for just a short period of time), their ailments began to
fade away! So many of them stated that when their doctors examined them, they were
taken off their medications. This caught my interest, since just before this trip, I paid
over $300 for my monthly prescriptions, which only subside my symptoms, but do not
cure my ailments.
The ‘Standard American Diet’ (SAD) is causing much of the torment in our lives. It
reminds me of the biblical devil who constantly deceives us into thinking that we can eat
the SAD and be healthy. We may not feel sick now, but our bodily systems work best
when we consume living foods that God provides. They mesh nicely with our organs.
The SAD diet will eventually cause our arteries to clog, our pancreas to go haywire, little
pockets to appear in the wall of the bowel (which get infected when clogged), and even depression.
Of course, the SAD affects our mind too! Tell me now? If you were the devil, what
better way would you choose, to get a society off the track of doing God’s will, than by
introducing a diet that will make society feel bad and eventually kill them? Romans
12:1-2 (NRSV) “…present your bodies as a living sacrifice, …Do not be conformed to
this world,…!
Before the conference ended, I stood up and told the group that my intent was to take
this lifesaving information back and share it with my church. I received a round of
applause! I quickly raised my hands in protest, saying that I am not that unselfish; I am
here to improve my health as well! They suggested that I study some educational
DVD’s, and then return to train to become a ‘Health Minister’.
And that is what I intend to do. Upon returning to Stone Chapel United Methodist
Church, the ‘Mind, Body, Spirit’ class will resume on September 26 and every
Wednesday thereafter from 10 AM to 12PM. Please contact me; bring a friend who
wants to lead a healthy lifestyle also.