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Check any bookstore, look on-line, watch the television talk shows or listen to any of the pundits on the radio and you will find ‘expert’ after ‘expert’ pontificating about what is wrong with your diet and what you actually should be eating. However, with very little—if any—exception, they are all wrong! I will tell you exactly what is right but first, a word from our Sponsor: God said, adding to the plants and fruit as mentioned in today’s verse, “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.” {Gen.9:3}

Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. After all, we want the best, the secret ‘miracle’ foods advertised on radio, TV and in magazines! So, we recall the words of Peter who said that God has given us everything pertaining to life and godliness {2Pt.1:3} and therefore turn to Jesus, who IS the Word of God. He said to His disciples, “I have food to eat that you do not know about”. {Jn.4:32} So wisdom cries come, eat of My food. {Prov.9:5} Jesus went on to explain to His disciples, and to us: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.” {Jn.4:34}

And of course, if we have spent sufficient time in the Word we would also be likely to recall the words of the prophet Jeremiah who had said to the Lord: “Thy words were found and I ate them, and Thy words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart” {Jer,15:16} Now that’s a ‘happy meal’ mister Ronald McD!

Admittedly, and by way of a disclaimer, there is a chance that you may put on weight eating such food—that actually may even be a desired goal for the untold hundreds of thousands of people around the world who simply do not have enough to eat—even as we in the United States go on crazy fad diets to battle the very common overweight condition! In either case, it is not about counting calories, it is about counting our blessings that flow from the throne of grace and giving thanks for all things. {1Thes.5:18} God’s Word reveals after all that “Good news puts fat on the bones” {Pro.15:30}

So, as King David said, O, ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’ {Ps.34:8} because that good diet combined with a regular workout—doing the work of God—will keep you fit and trim.

“They (the disciples) said therefore to Him, ‘What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.’” (John 6:28-29)