Let your eating and drinking glorify God!

There is a cultural association to what we consume. In fact, this seems to assert the fact that one man’s meat is another’s poison. There are foods that I cannot stand and cannot even watch people eat just because it is culturally inappropriate to me. My lack of interest in those foods does not make those foods bad. Most importantly, whatever we eat should be healthy for the body. Paul also admonishes us to ensure that our choice of foods does not raise a stumbling block for others (1 Corinthians 10:31). Healthy meals are good for the body and help the consumer to receive the appropriate nutrients in their right proportion. God is interested in you and expects us to be interested in our health and well-being. 

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31).

A healthy body makes a healthy Christian but an unhealthy body brings decay and groanings. In view of this, God had admonished us that “whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Our food consumption should be God-glorifying. Gluttony, desire for junk foods, and other eating patterns that ultimately causes one to be at the mercy of health professionals or develop excessive health complications is not God-glorifying. Paul advised the believers in Corinth to “eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.” (1 Corinthians 10:25‭-‬28).

In other words, the believer has been given the freedom of choice, but we should ensure that our choices are glorifying God but not raising stumbling blocks to others and ultimately causing us health-related problems. When we understand this, it helps us to make God-informed decisions. Knowing that “I have the right to do anything but not everything is beneficial” and “I have the right to do anything but not everything is constructive” (1 Corinthians 10:23) helps to moderate what we consume. Further, knowing that “no one should seek their own good, but the good of others” (1 Corinthians 10:24) put a desire to consume that which will cause others to thrive. Remember that when our way of eating causes us to be unwell, it affects the people around us. Let God be glorified in the way you eat. Take care of the body, it is the temple of God!