Eating

 What do we eat?

 We eat daily unless 
we are for some reason denied 
food or we deny ourselves this. 

Everyone has different tastes, 
likes and dislikes, some 
have allergies to certain food 
types, others find certain 
foods disagree with them. 

Some find the preparation 
of the meal just as rewarding 
as the final product, others 
love to see their hard work 
rewarded by compliments. 

Some eat simply because 
they have to, they 
cannot afford the meals 
that they would choose. 

Others eat to excess, 
whereas others sometimes 
cannot find enough to eat.

In our Christian walk with God, 
we find that we have 
much food on offer. 

Within the bible is our food; 
this sustains us and yet 
this gives us growth 
in our understanding of God 
and our understanding of 
ourselves. 

It gives us the realisation 
of how we should live, act 
and speak in all areas of our lives. 
It shows us what our attitudes towards 
others should be and so much more. 

If we deny ourselves this food, 
then we suffer for it. 
Yet what we also have to 
realise is that just as with
our physical appetites, 
we all can have many different
things within the bible we like to
eat and digest. 

But sometimes we may not 
like the food we are given, 
we struggle to take it and 
eat, though it can both sustain 
us and help our growth. 

Other things we read and hear 
of the bible we can accept and so 
take and eat far more quickly. 
But as we do we must savour the taste. 

And when we eat, we should not 
eat too much all at once, 
otherwise we will struggle to 
digest all that we have read. 

So let us learn to eat 
of the word of God, 
think on it and learn 
from it daily.

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