So titled is a recent post on the blog My Zero Carb Life. A bit about the site first. The author, Kelly, has had tremendous success with eliminating carbs from her diet. It’s a well-written blog that anyone doing low-carb should read. I say this because she’s successfully eliminated carbs from her diet while claiming no ill effects. Yet, some people still want to insist that low-carb is dangerous.
Anyway…
She confronted one of the same issues that I did. How do my beliefs fit in with the way I am eating? I had pretty much eliminated grains. I found myself confronted with the fact that one of the qualities of the promised land that made it a good land was that it was “a land of wheat and barley” (Deuteronomy 8:7-8 ). I also had to reconcile the fact that blessings were promised for the one that sells grain (Proverbs 11:26).
This caused me to put myself through the To Wheat or Not To Wheat test which is documented in three posts. When using organic wheat to make bread products, I gained no weight. This self-experiment is what led me down the real food path. The thing about biblical times… when you needed flour? You made it (Job 31:10, Luke 17:35). I realized I personally didn’t have to be a militant grain-hater.
Perhaps the single most important concept to remember about your spiritual life and food is summed up by 1 COR 8:8 which she references and we’ve used in a class we taught:
Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat. (HCSB)
I couldn’t agree more with her statement:
In my heart, I truly believe that God wants me to feel my physical best. I know that this isn’t His primary concern. He is mostly concerned with my spiritual well-being and my ability to glorify Him. He is far less concerned with how long I live on this earth and is more concerned with how prepared I am for eternal life. He is less concerned with the size of my pants and more concerned with the size of my heart and my desire to please Him.
My final reconciliation of diet and God’s word involved me eliminating as much of the stuff that He didn’t give us from my diet. For me, that works. Too many people make a religion out of diet. It’s not. The important fact about diet is that yours keeps you healthy. Healthy dietary patterns tend to involve decreased carbohydrates and fewer processed foods.
So while I find that eating grain in a state that is as natural as possible works for me, it may not work for everyone. And that my friends, is ok.
This article was first published on March 10, 2015 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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