Eating and Drinking

Today’s Scripture: Now John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey. 7 And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8 I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." Mark 1:6-8

Reflection:  Food can often bore individuals and make them fed up of life, especially if one is eating the same thing daily, over and over again. Many of us may never realize this bitter truth because we are used to the varieties of life. Unless we have allowed ourselves to go through this restrictive exercise either due to circumstances or choice. 

Life is not just eating and drinking or always having a nutritious diet and having the right kind of calories. We could have all these and yet fall sick because as Jesus says, not what goes in but what comes out from a man is more important.”  What one enjoys today becomes a poison tomorrow.

To lead a frugal life and to find satisfaction in the little things of life is greater freedom and happiness. The existential and eternal happiness and freedom is possible only in Jesus. This freedom is a great blessing to lead a life free of the many fears we carry in ourselves concerning eating and drinking. The worldly seek a healthy prolonged life centered on self while the Christian seeks it in Jesus. This is detrimental to life itself and its eternal purpose for which has created us.

Prayer: Lord, may I offer you a constant sacrifice of self denial with praise and thanksgiving.

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