Breakfast For Your Soul

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

 
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in Him.

[Psalm 34:8]

“ummmm-ummm GOOD”
 

Good Afternoon Beloved,

Ever wonder why some of the most delicious foods are bad for you?  Even some of our healthy treats have been recently under attack (remember the tainted pistachios and peanuts?).  I read an article not too long ago warning of the danger of drinking too much water!  It leads our heart to wonder, “well, what can we eat and drink?”.  I’ve decided to take heed to the warnings, and pray over everything that goes into my mouth.  Food is a subject that the bible has a lot to say about.  It seemed to be a central theme in much of the ‘happenings’ in biblical times.  Wedding feasts, passover feasts, ‘we have a guest in our home’ feasts … there seemed to be a feast for just about every occasion.  Those folks loved to eat!  Sounds like us.  Think of how many of our holidays are centered around food… Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, Memorial Day, Forth of July etc. etc.   Even in the business world, food has become a major selling point for many a meeting.  A question I’m hearing more and more, “is there gonna be food?” .  Many of us are learning healthier ways to cook and eat and that is really good.  The thing is that no matter how healthy, if it isn’t appetizing, chances are it won’t be eaten.  Our family is on a lower sodium diet.  It just makes sense.  If one member of the family can’t eat certain foods, we modify our dinners accordingly.  The change was so natural, and the foods taste so good that we don’t even notice what is missing.  The funny thing is, that when we eat out, we notice the difference and things taste really salty at times.  They didn’t add more… we are the ones who changed.  Hey, tastes change.  I remember my mother telling me when I was a kid, that one day I wouldn’t be so crazy about candy… she was right.  Now, I can take it or leave it.  The one flavor that actually gets sweeter with time is Jesus.  The closer we get to Him the sweeter He gets.  The better we know Him, the more we understand His ways.  We can smell His aroma through the pages of scripture.  Each book gives us a different view of the same Savior…

In GENESIS, Jesus is the Ram at Abraham’s altar
In EXODUS, He’s the Passover Lamb
In LEVITICUS, He’s the High Priest
In NUMBERS, He’s the Cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
In DEUTERONOMY, He’s the City of our Refuge
In JOSHUA, He’s the Scarlet Thread out by Rahab’s window
In JUDGES, He is our King
In RUTH, He is our Kinsman Redeemer
In 1st and 2nd SAMUEL, He’s our Trusted Prophet
In KINGS and CHRONICLES, He’s our Reigning King
In EZRA, He is our Faithful Scribe
In NEHEMIAH, He’s the Rebuilder of everything that is broken
In ESTHER, He is the Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate
In JOB, He’s our Redeemer that ever liveth
In PSALMS, He is my Shepherd
In PROVERBS and ECCLESIASTES, He’s our Wisdom
In the SONG OF SOLOMON, He’s the Beautiful Bridegroom
In ISAIAH, He’s the Suffering Servant
In JEREMIAH and LAMENTATIONS, Jesus is that Weeping Prophet
In EZEKIEL, He’s the Wonderful Four-Faced Man
In DANIEL, He is the Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace
In HOSEA, He is my Love that is forever faithful
In JOEL, He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit
In AMOS, He’s our Burden Bearer
In OBADIAH, He’s our Savior
In JONAH, He is the Great Foreign Missionary
In MICAH, He is the Messenger with beautiful feet
In NAHUM, He is the Avenger
In HABAKKUK, He is the Watchman that is ever praying for revival
In ZEPHANIAH, He is the Lord mighty to save
In HAGGAI, He is the Restorer of our lost heritage
In ZECHARIAH, He is our Fountain
In MALACHI, He is the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings
In MATTHEW, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God
In MARK, He’s the Miracle Worker
In LUKE, He’s the Son of Man
In JOHN, He is the door by which everyone of us must enter
In ACTS, He is the Shining Light that appears to Saul on the Damascus road
In ROMANS, He is our Justifier
In 1st CORINTHIANS, He is our Resurrection
In 2nd CORINTHIANS, He is our Sin Bearer
In GALATIANS, He redeems us from the law
In EPHESIANS, He is our Unsearchable Riches
In PHILIPPIANS, He supplies our every need
In COLOSSIANS, He’s the Fullness of the Godhead Bodily
In 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS, He is our Soon Coming King
In 1st and 2nd TIMOTHY, He is the Mediator between God and man
In TITUS, He is our Blessed Hope
In PHILEMON, He is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother
In HEBREWS, He’s the Blood of the everlasting covenant
In JAMES, it is the Lord that heals the sick
In 1st and 2nd PETER, He is the Chief Shepherd
In 1st, 2nd, and 3rd JOHN, it is Jesus who has the tenderness of love
In JUDE, He is the Lord coming with 10,000 saints
And in REVELATION, He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords