Tag: diet
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Detestable
3Do not eat any detestable thing.–Deuteronomy 14 5 simple statements concerning this verse. God (not you) ultimately sets the standards for life. God find certain things detestable. The fact that God even regulated diet meant that even the most private matters were not outside of God’s eye. You either are obeying God with every aspect…
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Regulated Eating [1-minute read]
46This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground, 47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.–Leviticus 11 I don’t…
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Self-Control and Discipline
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.26So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating…
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Lifeblood
3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.5And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow…
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How a Cheesecake Taught Me Discipline
5O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.–Proverbs 8 Four categories here. 1. The word simple is othertimes translated naive. 2. Prudence means using the mind to discipline life. 3. The word fool is othertimes translated stupid. 4. Sense is literally the Hebrew ‘understanding of heart.’ So the ones who are living the undisciplined…
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Simple Perspective
5O simple ones, learn prudence;O fools, learn sense.–Proverbs 8 My thoughts: Four categories here. The word simple is othertimes translated naive. Prudence means using the mind to discipline life. The word fool is othertimes translated stupid. Sense is literally the Hebrew ‘understanding of heart.’ So the ones who are living the undisciplined life need to…
