The body needs food to be in healthy condition. This means that human beings must eat in order to live healthy. I may not know how you feel after enjoying a good meal. 1 would rather say fine. The question is what makes up a good meal? The good meal must be one that is clean, (Hebrew word “Kosher”), which means approved scripturally. Most people are in the habit of getting fast food variety, which contains a lot of high fat and artificial preservatives that are bad to the body.
When we (human beings) are ill, we strive as much as we can, to be healthy and when we are well, we tend to forget the nature of sickness; we take our health for granted and fail to thank Yahweh for our good health. 3 John verse 2 says;
“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you even as your soul is getting along well.”
I wish that you look at your health, and examine it to know whether it is functioning well. If you have it, praise the Elohim of Israel and value it next to a good conscience, for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money cannot buy. Health is the most natural thing in the world to desire, It is natural to be healthy because health is to the body, what honesty is to the soul. In effect, we must be very honest to our body. To be honest to our body is to be righteous because righteousness is a vital element of good health.
Good health comprises both physical and spiritual. The maintenance of physical health means paying attention to the food we eat. It is very pathetic that man who was created as a perfect mechanism should be so inconsiderable and negligent with the care of his marvelous body, because the soul surely gets along well.
Our body is made up of what we eat. When we furnish it with the needed requirements for growth and repair, we add length to life, health, strength and the joy of living. Many live to eat but the wise eat to live, because ill health of the body is defect to the body, but health alone is victory.
A good health is very important to the body. As the body gets those nutrients it needs, the body flourishes in good health. Matthew 6:33, Yahshua said:
“But seek ye first the kingdom of Yahweh and righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.”
There is no wealth greater than physical fitness, and no gladness above joy of heart. The Bible as a whole aims at two things, the welfare of the body and the welfare of the soul. To keep one’s body healthy and in good condition is part of what it means to walk in Elohim’s ways, for it is difficult to know and understand Elohim when one is sick. Therefore, we have a duty to avoid whatever is injurious to the body and cultivate habits conducive to good health and strength. Good health is very important to the body. As the body gets those nutrients it needs the body flourishes.
The question one may ask or try to ponder is, “what are these things” mentioned in Matt. 6:33. Let us read what Yahshua said in the same Matt. 6:31-32, “…So do not worry, saying, what shall we eat or What shall we drink, or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them, but seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” From the quotation above our Master Yahshua refers to “these things as food, drink, clothes etc – things which the physical body needs in order to function and be comfortable.
Here, the Saviour Yahshua has a much wider range of temporal things in mind. He is saying that if one attends to spiritual life, the physical necessities will be taken care of. Indeed, there are two kinds of food for healthy living, the spiritual and the physical food.
The spiritual life is the kingdom of Yahweh and it is not an appendage to the outer life of physicality. The spiritual life is not in the eating. It is the main diet that the body needs. When one obtains this spiritual life, it tends to dominate the whole life completely. Our Master Yahshua calls it our “manna” it is a miraculous food which sustains the soul in the wilderness. Thus, our present life is going through a wilderness experience and we need this miraculous food that will keep us happy in order to inherit the kingdom of Yahweh. The only true happiness one can get is by serving one another. The self- service which is seeking food, drink, clothes etc. before all else is the very opposite of the kingdom of Yahweh. In this world that we are living, there are two types of people. There are those who are seeking the kingdom of Yahweh first and simply letting Yahweh take care of their food, drink, clothes and other necessities of life and there are those who are seeking for food, drink, clothes and other temporal things first and letting Yahweh take care of the kingdom or want nothing to do with the kingdom at all.
I wish to stress again that there is nothing wrong with food, drink and clothes, only that it must be scripturally clean, “for all have need of these things” said Yahshua in Matt: 6.25-30. I want you to know that Yahweh is not against good food. It is the desire of our Father in heaven to bless us with all good things, including physical things for our enjoyment. When the Elohim of Israel gives you surplus, and you bless others through your generosity you also add in your health. What concerns Him is that if we set our eyes focused on puddings only, we will lose sight of the main course and get ill. When one eats a life of puddings only, in the end, one will die prematurely and to set or relegate the kingdom of Yahweh spells instant death Have you made up your mind to seek, the kingdom of Yahweh in good health first and let Yahweh take care of your material things? If Yahweh blesses you with much food, you should eat enthusiastically and share with others, if not, you should be satisfied with the little you have. Shalom! (MZ).
-Yeshai Nwosu
