When we find that nearly all our conversations with believers and even non-believers has to do with perfect food, perfect health and a buff body, we are witnessing the paranoia that satan has placed in the heart of the unregenerate. Even believers have bought into this deception.
Natural this and natural that, climate, environment, obsession over organic food, organic this and that, is nothing more than a distraction.
Of course we don't need to be ingesting poison, but the little amounts we get from the food is not harmful. We are being manipulated to be paranoid about the food that God provides.
If we live in a constant state of fear over our food, the devil can keep us busy choosing the right kind, rinsing them the right way, and many other things that distract us from the important things.
We are told by God not to worry about what we will eat, what we will say and where we will go, He has all of that taken care of.
When we obsess over our food, surroundings and health, we are lacking faith that God can take care of all of that.
I have more important things to be doing than studying constantly about the right kind of foods to eat and meds to take or the exercise. He has given me what I need when I need it.
I am convinced that the obsession with exercise is not godly or necessary. I have known many people who have never "exercised" a day in their life, nor have they physically worked hard. Their work was not physically stressful, but they lived to be a ripe old age.
Normal body activity is good for anyone, but exercise for the sake of the perfect body, is obsession. Perhaps if we were to be honest we would be able to admit we exercise to "look good" to others, while bragging about what we do, much more than any real concern about our health.
The obsession with food, exercise and natural medicines has been so overblown that it is almost nauseating. When I am in a group of believers regularly and every conversation is laced with, if not entirely dominated by "healthy" this or that, I become bored feeling like I need to get away and put my mind on something that really matters.
Many women especially, are so caught up in this "natural" craze that it is impossible to hold an intelligent conversation about the things of the Lord. They seem to have little interest in Scripture, prayer or anything else that has to do with our Christian walk, but have much to say about food and exercise.
It is not my goal to offend those who are into this natural thinking, however I do want to warn believers that many things we think are so important, have been overblown to the point of insanity.
Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
God said this and I believe Him!
