Knowing Whats Good For You by Rodney Howard Browne

As we are brooding about nourishment, we must remember that while certain foodstuffs could be good for us and mandatory for our health, some are neither. Talking of that, it is an engaging study to test out what was eaten by plenty of the people that lived back in biblical days. Trust me ; you want to think carefully before making the choice to blindly follow the diet of any one person who lived way back then. Immediately before the Exodus, the Hebrews were instructed to prepare and eat roasted lamb, bread without yeast, and sour herbs ( Exodus 12:8-9 ). While on their way to the Guaranteed Land, the Hebrews longed for the fish, fresh vegetables, and melons they’d left in the dust in Egypt, while their outback diet consisted essentially of manna, apart from one complete month when they’d nothing but quail ( Numbers 11:5-9, 18-20, 31-34 ). Samson ate honey out of the body of a young lion he had earlier killed ( Judges 14:8-9 ).

Abigail catered a huge meal of mutton, roasted grain, raisins, bread, and wine to David and his men in the field ( one Samuel 25:18, twenty-seven, 35 ). The soothsayer Elijah drank from a brook and ate bread and beef, brought to him each morning and evening by ravens ( 1 Kings 17:5-6 ). Young Daniel turned down the King of Babylon’s choice food and wine, preferring a diet composed of only veg and water ( Daniel 1:8-12 ).

John the Baptizer limited his diet to locusts and honey ( Matthew 3:4 ).

Jesus and His followers ate fish cooked over an open fire ( John 21:9 ). Peter was instructed to eat “all categories of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air” ( Acts 10:12-13 ). The list is unfinished, but you get the picture. Manifestly , there’s no single dish or preferred food that folks ate in the days of the Bible.

And, honestly, some of the things they actually did eat would make us gag if we attempted to gag them down.

If you doubt that, imagine gnawing on an appetiser of locust and wild honey, followed by a sandwich made from some slabs of some crawling creature placed between a pair bits of manna ( which, incidentally, was like coriander seed and, when you baked it, it tasted like oil, according to Numbers 11:7-8 ). And what God provided for one was not always intended for another.

As I pointed out at the start, each individual is an individual person. That implies every one of us must discover which foods are best for us, which foods our bodies can endure, and which foods we want to stay absolutely away from. All of that may be meticulously determined as a consequence of tests and analyses, if you select. If you hope to get the best nutritive worth from what you eat, it is important that you take the time and go to the difficulty to discover which foods are best for you.

When you make that doggedness, ask Our Lord God for the willpower to say no way to those foods you haven’t any business eating. And while you are at it, do not forget to give Him thanks for the ones that help to keep you healthy, cheerful, energetic, and ardent about life.