Amber gives us some food for thought (and I think she makes some excellent points:
“Humans tend to extremes. If we’re not eating double burgers with donuts for buns, we’re eating grain-free, dairy-free, meat-free burgers. I tend to extremes. I like to do something all the way, or not at all. But being married to Medium Man Mike – who likes to be down the middle in all things – I have come to an appreciation for moderation.
And one of those areas is food. While much of our country is ensconced in ridiculous excess, I live in a community in which people run to the top of a 14,000 foot mountain and drink wheat grass for fun.
It’s good to be healthy, but I often wonder, are we as Christians – at least my subculture of Coloradoan skinny-jean Christians – far too concerned about our bodies, our health and our diet?
The verse always espoused at times like this is 1 Corinthians 6:19-20: “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?…Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
The logic goes something like this: “How could you put donuts in the same container as the Holy Spirit?”
But if we read the verse in context, it is talking about sexual immorality – specifically uniting our bodies with that of a prostitute. That doesn’t mean that the principle of this verse can’t be applied to other areas of our lives, but it’s good to remember that the verse wasn’t talking about saturated fats.
The intent of the verse was to encourage us to lead holy lives. And what I must ask is this: Does an over-attention to health and diet lead to holiness?”
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