Does Your Diet Honor God?

This little blog entry is a quiz for yourself to get you thinking if you are indulging more into food than God.
Everyone who knows me for a few days will find out that I live and breathe food. I find it fascinating how many different cakes, cookies, breads and brownies you can make with a few basic ingredients; flour,eggs,sugar,milk and butter. Food is needed to survive of coarse, but we don't need to over think and indulge in every meal. As a Chef and a person who loves looking in magazines and cook books, I find myself dreaming and spending a little too much time thinking about meals. Scary part is that I am not even married yet or have children! Imagine when I am able to have my own house parties and make my own dinners for my family. Now, don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with spending time planning out meals, looking at food magazine or spending five minutes staring at an ad in the newspaper for a new drink from Starbucks. But there is a limit that us Christian women need to realize.

To indulge in something means to have "unrestrained action". Well that should tell you right there that it is a sin. Anything that says "unrestrained" is going to have a non-Christian connotation. For example, when we are on our monthly cycles sometimes we crave things,such as chocolate, to help our cramps or bloating. Having a piece or two in order to curb that want or apparent need is fine, we all need to have a little satisfaction or treat when going through something hard. God gave us food for nourishment, strength and satisfaction. The problem lies when pleasing becomes unrestrained; when we eat a whole bar of chocolate or box of Mac and Cheese.

Be honest to yourself and to God, are you finding satisfaction from cookies, chips, ice-cream, and gummy bears? Are you craving food more than you are craving God? Food should not be what you are turning to in times of sadness, happiness and stress. We should be craving God NOT food. I read somewhere once that shallow desires give shallow efforts....which gives shallow results.

We all want to be healthy, but the process of getting healthy is more than just losing weight and focusing on ourselves. It has to be about realizing that having a healthy diet is more than just adjusting our diets to healthier choices and excersizing to have a nice body....it has to be about a spiritual journey your taking WITH God to honor His temple......your body.

And as an end thought......God made up our ablity to crave so we would want more on Him. Nothing will change until you direct your cravings to wanting more of What God has to offer you. And what he has to offer you is a better deal. There is guarantee that no carbs or fat will attach to your hips when you dig into a big portion of His word.