Does the Bible have anything to say about the food we eat, our diet? Does God care about our eating? Have you ever known of a cook who has prepared a special gourmet meal for you as a guest, who hovers over you while you eat, hoping against hope that you like what he/she has prepared, pained and disappointed if you express no genuine appreciation? Could God be like that?
Of course, we know that the Bible says that God created all the food which we enjoy; it says that He "satisfieth [our] mouth with good things" (Psalm 103:5). There's no other reason why He created strawberries, for example; I have never known of a scientist/nutritionist who says that they are in any way essential for good nutrition. You won't starve for want of strawberries! And they won't ward off the flu. God created them simply because they taste good (a little illustration of His love)!
The Bible also pictures God as kneeling down and opening His hand to feed the little chipmunks and squirrels, and deer, and rhinos, yes, and us too: "The eyes of all wait upon Thee; and Thou givest them their meat [food] in due season. Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" (Psalm 145:15, 16). Can you imagine the heavenly Father getting so intimately involved with every one of us personally, as that? Yes! The Bible says so!
There is one more intimate detail in the Bible about our food: Jesus teaches that the temporal, daily food we eat is ours only because of His great sacrifice in giving Himself for the world. Here it is: "I am the bread of life. ... I am the living bread which came down from heaven, ... and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. ... Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you" (John 6:35, 51-53).
The people didn't understand Him then, and many were so offended by this that they "went back, and walked no more with Him" (vs. 66). What did He mean? Just this: He says that the food you eat day by day is "My body, which is broken for you" (1 Cor. 11:24). This is something startling! Every meal, if we have faith, becomes a sacrament, the Lord's Supper!
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: March 4, 2001.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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