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The Dieter's Prayer Book 4/25
Topic Started: Apr 25 2005, 04:01 AM (26 Views)
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From "The Dieter's Prayer Book," by Heather Harpham Kopp

The Failure of Food

But food does not bring us near to God. 1Corinthians 8:8

When you consider all the ways we misuse food, thinking it can do what it cannot----comfort, entertain, reward us----it makes sense to spend time remembering what food CAN'T do.

Food can't fix your marriage. Food can't make you happy. Food can't heal your wounds. Food can't bring you love. Food can't make you a better parent. Food can't bring you near to God. When it comes to all those things in life that really matter, food is a failure!

But everything food fails to deliver, God does. Listen to the psalmist's declarations of God's "benefits": "Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits---who FORGIVES ALL YOUR SINS and HEALS ALL YOUR DISEASES, who REDEEMS YOUR LIFE FROM THE PIT and CROWNS YOU WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION, who SATISFIES YOUR DESIRES WITH GOOD THINGS SO that YOUR YOUTH IS RENEWED like the eagle's" (Ps. 103:2-5, italics mine).

As the apostle Paul said, "'Food for the stomach and the stomach for food'----but God will destroy them both" (1 Cor. 6:13). Food is for the sustenance and nourishment of your body while you're here on earth. But the things that lasts for eternity and the things that meet your deeper needs and hungers now are found only at God's buffet table. Today don't seek from food what food will always fail to give. Instead, praise God, and feast on His benefits to your soul's delight.

Food for Thought:

Where food fails, God delivers.

A Prayer for Power

Dear God, today I rejoice in the failure of food! I rejoice in its failure because it reminds me of Your promises, which never fail. You have said, "Love never fails" (1Cor. 13:8). May love be what I seek, what I rely on, what I give away, Lord. For I know that even as I give away love, I am replenished with love. Help me never to look to food, to people, to any kind of outward change, including a better body, for those benefits that only You deliver. The plans I make for food beyond physical nourishment will ultimately fail. The plans I invest in relationship with You will always succeed. Today I will seek true success, and I will celebrate all of Your benefits: healing, love, compassion, forgiveness, filling, redemption, renewal! "Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name" (Ps. 103:1). Amen.
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