Food or Fooled?

 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' " 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. Gen 3:1-7

Starting from creation at the garden of Eden, the devil is  out to destroy man. His effort did not just stop at the garden of Eden. Even now, he is working at it. He comes in subtle ways making you feel he is a trusted friend whereas he is not. When he visited Eve in the above passage, he presented himself as  friend  and projected God as unfriendly, insincere  in creation  and does not want His creatures  to be like Him. Until now the devil still do the same. Some of such  deceits are: painting junk food as good for the body, divorce as better than mending our homes, all in the bid to destroy the beautiful body and homes that God has given us to enjoy.  

 “And God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat” (Genesis 1:29). 

Here, the creator or simply put the manufacturer of the machine called man was kind enough to have given man the guide on how to keep the body well.  If anything contrary goes in to the body, it is death. The three fold ministry of the devil as recorded in  John 10:10 which is to kill, steal and destroy were put into play since the garden of Eden. He does this by presenting the opposite of what God asked His children to eat. In our days he diverts people's attention from fresh fruits to processed foods. With  this we ignore all the nutrients which are supposed to keep the body away from diseases and go for chaff  which are of no VALUE to the body.  Instead of fresh juices/fruits  we opt for canned and packaged  drinks with so much preservatives, sugar, caffeine, etc. which are harmful to the body.

As I sat in theater waiting to be operated on the breast for cancer, a doctor came to me and said, madam, after the operation I advice you to eat “good food”. I asked what kind of food do you refer to as good food because I believe in balance diet - protein, carbohydrates, vitamin etc. He answered prepare your food with plenty fish, meat, vegetables etc. I thanked him for that information. The devil has fooled us to make us think that, “good food” is plenty fish, meat etc.

 I remember a sight I saw in a restaurant one day. A man sat for a plate of pounded yam with a bottle of malt, pepper soup of chicken with plenty meat popularly referred to in Nigeria as roundabout or kayan chiki. In my heart I thought this man was enjoying himself. I felt maybe his wife might be suffering at home. With what I know now, I recall the event and I feel sorry for him. He was “enjoying” himself in ignorance.

MANUFACTURER'S GUIDE 

Every manufacturer has a guide on how to use, handle and maintain their product called the manual. The manual  always accompany the product. You are suppose to study the manual so as not to make mistake in its usage and thereby last longer,  as per life span. For example, if you buy a car you are suppose to study the manual to know whether you are to use diesel or petrol. You also need to study to know where to pour the water etc. If you use petrol instead of the recommended diesel by the manufacturer you will get your car knocked. So also it is with the body. The manual given by the creator (manufacturer) for the upkeep of this body is Gen.1:29. What that means is that herbs and fruits are what we need for the maintenance of the body. He has his reasons for saying that. The same thing goes to the animals. Gen. 1:30. 

Reading/studying the Bible we discover that until the time of Noah, men were living hundreds of years. The word of God said Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came(Gen. 7:6). At this age Noah was still strong, mentally alert and had good sight all because of the kind of the food he was eating. After this period, the life span of man started dropping on the face of the earth and now it is worst. We even  hardly get to the 70years promised for our generation in Ps. 90:10 “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away”(KJV). Today, So many sicknesses, diseases and infirmities have invaded the land and some doctors tagged it INCURABLE.

To understand why God said the herbs and fruits (raw vegetables and fruits )are for food unto man, we need to know and also understand how this body is made to function. The first thing we need to realise is that the body is a living organism made of millions of living cells. Each cell requires nutrients and oxygen to generate the power needed by the body. The body also has a defence mechanism call the immune system. The nervous system transmits impulses throughout the body. Respiratory system controls our oxygen intake. Indeed the Bible was right when in Psalms 139:14 it says “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well”(KJV). 

Cooked foods generally looses a lot of its nutrient which the cell need. Our environment is polluted with industralisation therefore the air we breathe is no longer pure. There is scarcity of portable water especially in Nigeria where pure clean water is meant for the rich. With these the cells get weaker and  weaker by the day and thereby causing us to be sick. That is the reason why these days by 40years of age about 70% of the human population has a sickness or diseases which the doctor calls genetic and incurable etc. Nobody in the Bible were told had genetic ailment. We read in the Bible that “and he died” Not “and he had an incurable disease and died”. We shall talk about some of the diseases called incurable or terminal later. But let me quickly mention here that sickness like cancer, diabetics, high blood pressure(BP) are just our bodies reacting to foods we eat which the Almighty creator never planned for us to take into the body. If we want to reverse the situation then we must go back to the manufacturers guide -fresh herbs and fruits. By following this guide the immune system takes care of any unwanted visitor (sickness) and we will not need to spend  so much money on drugs (which also has side effect).

* This is an extract from Lucy Abah’s book,  How God Delivered me From Cancer Through Eating Fruits and Vegetables.