What are your best healthy eating habits?
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I don’t have anything particularly interesting to write about healthy eating. But lately, I am making greater efforts to eat healthily. That didn’t seem to matter much when I was young 😀. So, I eat an apple a day and sometimes other fruit too. I try to eat more vegetables, including spinach, every day and avoid too much processed food. Nuts are a nice healthy little snack too. And I try not to eat too much red meat. Tuna is a nice alternative, as are chick peas. I try to eat sardines, but I don’t enjoy them much.
I remember these scenes from childhood. It was good to be made aware of healthy eating eventhough I didn’t always implement the advice:
And then there’s spiritual food to consider:
John 6:35
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
What did Jesus mean by us never being hungry or thirsty? My understanding is that when we believe, He supplies all that we need spiritually. “Bread of life” means that just as bread (or food) is needed for physical life, Jesus is what we need for spiritual life. He also uses water as a metaphor:
John 7:37-38
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
And the Scripture also uses unhealthy food as a metaphor for those who take the truth of the Bible and corrupt it by distorting its teaching, ignoring part of its teaching or adding their own teaching to it. At the time of Jesus, the pharisees fell into this category. They were religious, but they wanted everyone to fall into line, including Jesus, with their interpretation and their invented rules and regulations. It’s quite ironic that the most religious people among the Jews were the ones who were most opposed to Jesus. And we need to be careful of that in our own day too. We always need to be open-minded when we read Scripture and allow it to speak to us rather than hammering it into a shape that fits our preferences.
Matthew 16:6
6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Yeast is used as a metaphor for something small and hidden that rapidly spreads and transforms everything around it. So, it can be a metaphor for something evil that makes things worse, but it’s also a metaphor for something that can make the world a better place:
Matthew 13:22
33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
Even at the individual level, I can think of people who might have had very little power or visibility, but in a subtle way, proved very influential for good. And I can think of loud and powerful people who did the opposite, such as corrupt TV evangelists back in the 1980s. But you can get powerful people that do good. I remember Phil Collins introducing “Jesus He Knows Me”, a song ridiculing the corrupt evangelists, and he mentioned that you get the legitimate guys too. I was pleased to hear him say that.
