God lives and works today.
Perhaps we believe in him and experience his
reality in different areas of our lives.
But what about our eating and drinking?
What does God have to do with that?
The following program by Basilia Schlink may be
a great help to some of us.
When the Apostle Paul wrote his letters to
the Corinthians, he was writing to the rich
and the poor, the influential and the humble.
His words in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 31,
must have been meant for them all.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever
you do, do all to the glory of
God.
What about our own lives?
Is what we eat or drink too important
to us?
Are we too eager at the table so
that we can scarcely wait until the food
is passed to us?
Do we gobble everything down quickly?
Or are we perhaps very picky and choosy
about what we eat?
Now we have to eat and drink, otherwise
we would starve to death.
However, the decisive issue is that we eat
and drink before God.
A person need not have an outward religious
profession to bring glory to God.
As the Apostle Paul says, everyone can bring
God glory simply through his mealtimes.
When we are full of thanksgiving for the
goodness of the Heavenly Father, when we are
content with the way the meal has been
prepared, we are already bringing praise to the
Father.
In Romans 12, the Apostle Paul warns us,
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies as
a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual worship.
What do these words, living sacrifice, mean in
regard to our eating and drinking?
If I am battling in prayer for a
person's soul, I may decline to eat something
that I especially like, as a little sign
to the Lord that I am truly in
earnest.
And so I would say, Lord Jesus, please
accept this small sacrifice out of love for
you, for this person or prayer request.
Let it be a living sacrifice, not a
law or some kind of asceticism.
When we take this attitude, everything that we
eat and drink and everything that we do
will bring glory to God.
For then we are doing everything before Him,
with Him and for Him.
Yes, we have been redeemed to bring glory
to God, also in our eating and drinking.
Let me, Lord, go along with you, both
joy and sorrow share with you, close at
your side forever.
Your instrument I long to be, Lord, cause
sweet melody from me, whatever you will, my
Savior.
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Basilia Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan.
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