Friday, April 25, 2008

Love to Eat, Hate to Eat

Question 4.

What does the word glorify mean? What would it mean to you personally to glorify God? How would glorifying God in your eating habits change the way that you normally think about food?

Glorify means to give honor to. It means to lift up, exult, praise, give fame to.

I know that I cannot glorify God when I don't give Him all of my allegiance. I struggle with worshiping other things. Food, pleasure, etc.

If I glorified God in my eating habits it would mean truly that I would have to deny myself, take up my cross and follow Him. I would have to deny the impulses and the pleasure that I seek from food. It would mean running to Him instead of to food for solace and comfort. It would mean making my body a vessel for His purposes instead of my own.

4 comments:

Brandi said...

I agree with your definition for "glorify," Char. I think about having my eyes only on Him and thereby drawing others to Him as well. Living for Him.

Glorifying God in my eating habits would mean not wanting to eat anything that He doesn't want me to eat...and eating what He does want me to eat. To care more about His will than my pleasure. For my food to be to do the will of God. (John 4:34) To not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God. (Luke 4:4b) (Even if that word is "wait" or "no.")

And you know what? This all seems impossible, but It is God who is at work in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)

Let's keep praying for the seemingly impossible. He wants to do this in us! He will get glory! He is more than able!

(Thanks, Char, for faithfully putting up these questions each week!)

Debs said...

Yesterday I went to my sister's boyfriend's baptism, which was fantastic, and it was great to be there to share in the day with him.

The talk\sermon but was on Romans 3:23-25, and the guy doing it had a really interesting take on the bit about falling short of the glory of God. I mean, I know it, and I'm so thankful for God's grace that he sent Jesus, but he put it in a new light.

He was saying that God is glorious in everything that he is and does. So he is gloriously loving, gloriously rightous, awesomely faithful etc etc (I could continue all day!) When we do something, like tell a lie, we are saying to God 'I don't like being truthful, I don't like that about you, so I don't like you'. We turn our back on his gloriousness. And that applies to any and every type of sin.

He also put it this way - if we insult a person, whether by words or deeds or whatever, we are insulting the whole person. Just like it says that when we break one of God's laws, it's like we've broken them all.

Anyway, I think the point I'm trying to make is that when we do give God the honour in our eating and the way we think about food, and every part of our lives, it's the opposite of what I put above. It doesn't reject God, no, it's our way of glorifying him, lifting him up and show him he's important to us, to me.

Does that make any sense at all? I got distracted in the middle cos I had to stop a certain young lady from pulling all the wet wipes out of their packet. But hopefully it kinda soes make sense.

Thanks Char for posting these questions, I'm sorry I haven't joined in more so far. Life's been kinda hectic lately!

Brandi said...

Great to "see" you, Debs! That is a very cool way of thinking that I had not heard of before. It really makes sense. Not doing things God's way is an insult to Him. We are saying we like our way better...ouch.

Charlotte Cushman said...

Very good way to put it. I don't want to turn my back to God.

Thank you both.. :) char