Black and White, or Shades of Gray

 

 

 

Sorry if you received this yesterday - I accidentally hit publish instead of save.  This is a very important topic and so misunderstood.  A healing diet of God-made foods does not include processed foods, be sure to look carefully over the list of foods/ingredients to eliminate from your diet. 

This is what I wrote yesterday:

 

"How much can you cheat?  Do you have to eat all God-made foods or perhaps you can eat half God-made foods and half man-made foods?  Or maybe 80% good quality with 20% junk food would be o.k.?  I know this is something that I have struggled with and that many of you are struggling with.

 

You may think that getting to 80% good quality foods would be a tremendous success, and it would be!  But I also know, that those whom I’ve helped that have achieved their food/health goals are those who take it very seriously and go all the way.  I hope you know by now that eating 100% God-made foods is not a restrictive diet plan of bland and boring foods.  You can eat just about anything, and almost all favorite recipes can be converted.  Enjoy cookies and brownies and banana bread (right, Jennifer?).  As your taste buds are reawakened, you can truly enjoy and savor delicious meals.  It can be fun fixing the food and fun eating home cooked meals with your family and friends.

 

People like shades of gray, but I think our diet choices need to be black and white.  I hope that you do not think this is my diet plan, but instead see this as God’s diet plan, which He has set up for man to be healthy.  It has worked for me and for so many others that I know.

 

Some feel this approach and the weekly challenges are legalistic.  So many rules to follow and learn.  Education is not legalistic though.  If our food supply had not been so contaminated and made toxic by man, we could buy anything at the grocery store and be fine.  I think deep within each of us, we know that real food, grown in a natural, healthy setting is what our bodies need (as opposed to factory farming of today).

 

The purpose of the weekly challenges is to reteach you how to eat and feed your family.  It is an easy way to guide you through this year to eating 100% real God-made foods and ingredients.  Whether you have chronic or serious disease, you are overweight, or you have no energy and your brain is in a fog (ADD), eliminating man-made toxins from your diet is the only answer.  Man-made drugs and surgeries only further pollute your body and weaken your immunity, creating more problems and requiring more medication and treatments.

 

This may be a new concept that you cannot fully embrace and thus you find overwhelming (one that is difficult to embrace because of the addictive properties of man-made ingredients that are added to foods to make you think you must have them!).  That is why it is so important to do the weekly challenges, not just think about them or think you mostly do them, but to actually do them.

 

I have been doing a Beth Moore study of the book of James.  Its main point is that you can’t just read God’s book, the Bible, but that you must live it.  And many of Jame's instructions are very black and white, no shades of gray.  James 1:27 says to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  There are numerous ways we can be polluted by the depravity of the world.  Many things of the world we would all agree are immoral and unacceptable and thus are very obvious as sins and avoided or done in secret.  But what about our foods?

 

Satan is very tricky, the master of lies and deception.  People eat junk food daily (or processed man-made addictive ‘fake’ foods), junk food is openly sold all around us, soda is easier to obtain than good quality water, cheap pizza and cheap burgers are right down the street for almost everyone, and no one thinks anything of indulging and over-indulging in these."

 

To finish my post from yesterday, please read on.

We live in the post postmodernism era, in which it is taught that there is no universal truth - that each person can choose their own truth, can choose what is right for them.  Though you may realize this is bogus, this deception may be influencing you more than you realize.  These deceptive shades of gray have infiltrated our diets. 

The problem is that there are consequences to eating cheap quality foods.  A person may choose not to believe this, as Americans have done, but just look at the health of the general population.  People, subconsciously, are buying what is available and listening to the 'experts' of the world without questioning what it is doing to their health.  I hope through my posts that God is beginning to open your eyes to the truth.  The quality of the foods you eat is CRITICAL to your health.  PARAMOUNT. 

 

When you stay in the shades of gray, eating some good, some junk, your body must continue to work on cleansing out the junk that you continually eat.  It thus never builds up enough energy to heal and rejuvenate, to cleanse and burn off that unwanted weight.  When you eat all natural real foods, your body will get to a point that it can start to function the way God made it to work and you will heal from your chronic 'issues', reach your correct weight, and gain the energy and vitality and good health that is possible for all of us.

 

Don't let the master of deception tell you this is impossible, don't be overwhelmed, don't let your perspective be led by lies and discouragement.  God's way is to choose joy, and thanksgiving, and to think about whatever is pure and good and right.  ENJOY eating fresh fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds.  APPRECIATE the wonderful smells of cooking with spices and herbs and garlic and ginger.  SAVOR the flavor of healthy meats, homemade stews and soups.  LAUGH with your family while eating together.

 

Have fun changing your eating patterns.  Look forward to the excitement and thrill of this new journey.  Try new things and love the process.  I still love the quest - yesterday morning we had fresh organic papaya (on sale and demo'ed last week at Whole Foods)  and fresh organic blueberries (at Costco).  This is the first time in my life that I have bought a papaya.  It cuts up a lot like a cantaloupe (though I am no expert).  Be adventuresome and smile with joy, because God loves you and wants to bless you above and beyond for your obedience.

 

 



 



 "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Philippians 4:8