Food and God by Jenny Lee

In the last couple of years, I have been going through some personal health issues that have altered my life is some ways and that of my family. I had a lot of questions as to why certain thing were happening to me and how it wasn't fair.  I even have to admit that I started to question everything, even the existence of God.  I wasn't proud of that but it's something that kept crossing my mind.  I had to make a decision, believe or not believe and through God's grace I believe in him and believe that my health issues were a way to get closer to him and reach out to him as well as my family.  In other words, it was an opportunity to grow in inner strength and spiritually.

I have now accepted my 'New Normal' and wouldn't be were I am today without the hardships I have endured and continue to endure. But the question remained, One can believe but where is the proof.  Faith is all you need but the beauty of it all is that the proof of his existence is everywhere around us and in what we eat.

He designed the world for us.  It's too perfect for it to just have had happened by itself or just have appeared one day out of nowhere.  What do I mean?  Can you honestly tell me that everything came to be just as is? Don’t you think that everything in this world works too perfectly together? Don’t you think there is a greater being, God, behind all the detailed planning of this world and the universe? For instance, in an African forest, it was found that 1/3 of all rain was absorbed into the moss mats. When the moss was removed by humans, the environment experienced severe flooding.  Another example, is the way humans can find cures and help sustain a healthy body not through man made medications but through natures’ foods.  I have created a list so you can see some of the things certain types off foods can help cure:

1. Antiaging Foods: Onion, pear, basil leaf, thyme leaf, guava
2. Diabetes: Guava, Grape, onion, garlic, carrots, soybean, orange, cabbage
3. Asthma: Almonds, onions, cacao seeds, carrot, eggplants
4. ADD: Lentil, peanut, spinach, onion, garlic, cashew, pineapple, bok choi, asparagus, beets
5. Antibiotics: Garlic, soybean, watermelon, ginseng, papaya, apple, flaxseed, cabbage
6. Arthritis: Avocado, pumpkin seeds, pineapple, soybean, strawberries, tomato, sweet potato, beets, black currant
7. Breast cancer: Grapefruit, basil, sage, watermelon, kiwi, tomato, orange, carrot, peach, cashew, cabbage, banana
8. Osteoporosis: Beet, asparagus, cashews, pineapple, cauliflower
9. Alzheimer’s:  Tumeric, onion, sage, basil, parsley, grapefruit, flaxseed, carrot, sweet potato, lentils
10. Dandruff:  Parsnip, radish, cucumber, peppermint
11. Allergies: Strawberry, lemon, grape
12. Stroke: Lettuce, Spinach, cucumber, lima beans, asparagus, kiwi, cashews, banana
13. Bacterial Infections: Thyme, tea leaf, grapefruit, orange, tomato, onion, soybean

Well you get the idea. Now don’t tell me that all these foods just happened to have the right food properties to help our bodies heal?  Like I mentioned, this world and everything in it works too perfectly together to not have had a creator create it and plan it.  Nothing comes from nothing. Not even bacteria- which requires six elements to grow- food, acidity, temperature, time, oxygen and moisture.  Well guess who created that too?  So if you ever find yourself wanting proof, all you need to do is look into your heart just as it says "Now Faith is the Substance of things hoped for, the Evidence of things not Seen". Hebrews Chapter 11:1 but if something happened in your life that has made you question or doubt him then just look outside your window and there you will find the masterpiece that God created for all of us to enjoy and thrive from.

Comments

[christy H.]

I was diagnosed with Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 29 (I am 34 now) and let me tell you I asked all the same questions. I have finally after 5 years come to relaize that God often allows to limp for some time (Jacob in the bible) in order to lean on his grace and revel in his glory. I am satisfied to limp if you will if that is waht it takes to remind me that I can nothing set apart from him. I liked your reference to food because along with medication I too have been learning all the great things God intended when he gace us these amazing foods. Thanks for sharing. He feeds me physically and he fills me with his word that also quenches my thirst.