March 14th - God Wants Me to Eat Without Worry

How does God want me to eat?

Without stress.  When it comes to eating, I have a lot of stress.  Counting calories, watching portions, converting grams to ounces, gah!

Then there’s the other side.  The “I shouldn’t, but I’m gonna; but I shouldn’t, but I’m gonna…”  Guilt-filled, panicky, anxious, fearful, nervous stress.

Not how I’m destined by my Creator to relate to food. 

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?”  (Matthew 6:25-27)

I think the key to this passage is trust.  Two-fold trust.  Trusting that my heavenly Father does actually love me more than a bird.  That I am much more valuable to Him than they.  If I understood the amazing love of God, would I turn to food to fill me, or would I already be satisfied?

Secondly, trusting that He is able to provide.  I can surrender my desires and my needs to Him and He will meet them.  Abundantly.  My Father owns all the cattle on the hill and I am His heir.  He can, He wants to, and He will. 

Eating out of spiritual deficit posts are coming.  The point today is:

”Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”  (Matthew 6:28).