My biological dad had this thing of complaining about how much food is on the plate before completely decimating everything served to him. He would then lean back and say, “ukusutha kangaka kuyisono,” as he pulls my plate to him to also clean out my food. I never used to think about it that deeply until I learned why gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.
Last year, I was convicted about letting go of some foods and beverages. It started with quitting alcohol. This wasn’t hard. The appetite for it just died. Painless without a second thought. I didn’t even miss it. I only noticed 3 months later how long I’d been sober. I’d always been a lightweight anyway. And the veil between the physical and spiritual was thin for me when I had alcohol in me. If you’ve ever been around people who are spirit mediums you’d get what I’m talking about.
From there, I got convicted about eating outside food. Don’t eat food you didn’t watch being prepared. People are doing weird things to make profit. There was once a rumour going around about how people cook with water that washed corpses in order to attract more customers. It wasn’t until someone who works at a funeral home confirmed that people come to buy corpse water that I started to think – what if?
Not only that but lately the standard of cleanliness in these establishments has left a lot to be desired. Even the big brand names we expected a lot more from are also failing when it comes to cleanliness. I’m happy to see how active the health inspectors are in South Africa, and we need some of that here. There are places that need to be shut down. I get that those $1 deals meals are all we can afford, but the health implications will be even pricier. There’s a cholera outbreak people!
If fasting has all these great benefits listed in Isaiah 58:6-12 and the opposite of fasting is eating. And overeating is a deadly sin. Isn’t it worth fixing our relationship with food? I like to eat my problems. Call it comfort food, call me an emotional eater, doesn’t matter. I don’t eat cause I’m hungry, I’ll eat because I’m unhappy, bored, or stressed. Problem is, I turn to food when I should be turning to God instead. As my relationship with God has deepened, I’ve come to learn that sometimes, I’m not hungry for food, but I’m hungry for the daily bread. Once I pray, the hunger goes away.
I can’t eat anything halaal and that’s only because I don’t know anything about Allah. Which is fine. Because I also don’t eat meat sacrificed to the ancestors either. In Daniel 1:8-16, we learn that not all food is good food. So I quit meat entirely. I relapsed a couple of times, but it will stick at some point. I’m just at a point where I’ll only eat meat from animals I grew myself. You can’t trust anything nowadays. Meat that I can’t identify such as mince, polony, sausages… I completely stay away from because there’s no way to truly know what’s in it.
@jean.kariuki Don’t let the enemy feed you what he has prepared for you!
I can’t conclude this blog post without discussing food eaten in the dream. This seems to be the second go-to spiritual weapon against me. We’ll discuss the first one another time. But I have dreamt of being fed the creepiest things you can fathom. Not only does dream food make you ill, defiled and poisoned, it’s also hard to get the weight off. A popular dish dem witches like to serve me with is fried bream. Because of this, I no longer eat fish. My rule of thumb is, if it’s offered to you in the dream, don’t eat it in real life. See, when you see it in the dream, it’s a mere offer but when you eat it in real life, that’s acceptance and coming into agreement. You don’t want to come into agreement.
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Anyways, that’s all from me when it comes to my complicated relationship with food. We’re living in dangerous times. God made meat and said we could eat it, but people are more and more perverse nowadays. How many other things were created perfect and man got involved and ruined it for everyone? If you start feeling like you should refrain from ingesting something, don’t fight that feeling.
Next time, we can discuss how most of the fruits and vegetables we like are actually genetically modified. I was mortified when I learnt this. I was always hyper vigilant of GMOs in meat/fast food. Listen, if God didn’t make it, I ain’t eating it.
