We have a thief in our neighborhood. While I have not seen him, each morning I see what he has taken and I think he wears a Lone Ranger mask. Each night he carefully opens our bird suet basket and carries off the suet and seed cake. I hope he is storing this and not eating it. If he is eating it surely his arteries will plug up sometime this coming weekend and Mrs. Coon will have to call 911. I think I will leave my cell phone out for them. They are going to need it.
Which brings me to the issue of how well we take care of ourselves. Last week I commented to my oncologist that I never smoked, never drank alcohol and have been a veggie most of my life and yet I have Leukemia. I loved his response which was, “And that is why you are still alive.”
In the Old Testament God gave the children of Israel some very specific dietary laws. Don’t eat this and that. God gave them these instructions because He is the Creator. He knows what is good fuel and what is not, just as the manufacturer of our cars tell us what octane fuel works best for our specific car. Unfortunately the children of Israel turned them into taboos instead of what God wanted them to be. They turned them into tickets to heaven. Do and live abundantly.
Paul also reminds us in I Corinthians that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit and just as we would not defile and destroy our house of worship so we have an even greater responsibility to care for our bodies the best we can.
Written by Roger Bothwell on May 11, 2012
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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