YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT - If we fill our minds with God's wisdom and truth, our thoughts become wise and eventually our actions do too. That’s why Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Spiritual Junk Food can be found in the church and in the world. Let's fill our minds with the Whole Food Gospel and not Spiritual Spam. When it comes to our spirits, we become like the things we “eat.” If we fill our minds with “cultural junk food” or false teachings about Scripture, our thoughts become confused and ungodly. And this eventually affects our actions. If we fill our minds with God's wisdom and truth, our thoughts become wise and eventually our actions do too. That’s why Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). That’s why the Psalmist said, “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103) That’s why David said, “Taste and see that the LORD is good,” because His decrees “are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb” (Psalm 34:8; Psalm 19:10). “Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” Proverbs 24:14 Perhaps Jeremiah put it most deliciously: “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty.” Jeremiah 15:16

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You Are What You Eat

“Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God”

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If we fill our minds with God's wisdom and truth, our thoughts become wise and eventually our actions do too. That’s why Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Spiritual Junk Food can be found in the church and in the world. Let's fill our minds with the Whole Food Gospel and not Spiritual Spam.

Gail Burton Purath

When it comes to our spirits, we become like the things we “eat.”

If we fill our minds with “cultural junk food” or false teachings about Scripture, our thoughts become confused and ungodly.

And this eventually affects our actions.

If we fill our minds with God's wisdom and truth, our thoughts become wise and eventually our actions do too.

That’s why Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

That’s why the Psalmist said, “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103)

That’s why David said, “Taste and see that the LORD is good,” because His decrees “are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb” (Psalm 34:8; Psalm 19:10).

“Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.” Proverbs 24:14

Perhaps Jeremiah put it most deliciously: “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty.” Jeremiah 15:16

Let's feast on God's Word!

🍩 Spiritual Junk Food can be found in the church and in the world. Let's fill our minds with the Whole Food Gospel and not Spiritual Spam.

🍓 Did you know that Bible Love Notes has a whole collection of Scriptures and 1-minute devotions based on food analogies? Check it out here: Food for Thought. Why not go through it with your small group or Bible study?

Hi!  I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!

I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

Some Personal stuff:

I married my best friend Michael in 1970.

We have a grown son and daughter and 7 delightful grandchildren.

I've been a student of the Bible for 40 years

I'm a former Army wife, former homeschooler, and former missionary to Budapest, Hungary

I was born in Colorado, but I'm a "nomad" having moved about 40 times in my life!

I never graduated from college, but I have a Masters in Discipleship and Evangelism from seminary.

https://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2020/11/you-are-what-you-eat.html

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BALANCING HIGH RISKS - Learning from Mountain Goats - God purposefully designed high-elevation mountain goats for balance, because living life among high alpine rocks is a high-risk lifestyle - mountain goats provide sure-footed creation science exhibits of how much we need God’s wisdom and His providential blessings to safely journey through each day’s rocky challenges - Balance is what we see in the athletic agility of mountain goats, adroitly ambulating alpine ascents of the Rocky Mountains. The high-altitude dexterity of the mountain goat is so phenomenal that it routinely spends most of its time on precipitous terrain steeper than a 40° angle, and sometimes at pitches steeper than 60°, especially during winter. The leg bones of the mountain goat are engineered to maximize a functional mix of several factors: precision balancing (such as perching all four hooves on a small spot), front-forward pulling power, propulsion leverage and maneuverability (for running and jumping), and stability (due to a low center of gravity) against tipping over. Mountain goats are aptly designed for moving on rocky slopes. Mountain goats are instinctively careful, and they apply their agility as they test their environment. When predatory cougars try to attack them, the God-given instinct of mountain goats to flee — often successfully — is implemented by their agility and speed in and up these jagged rocky slopes and precipices!

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Balancing High Risks

Learning from Mountain Goats
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God purposefully designed high-elevation mountain goats for balance, because living life among high alpine rocks is a high-risk lifestyle - mountain goats provide sure-footed creation science exhibits of how much we need God’s wisdom and His providential blessings to safely journey through each day’s rocky challenges

BY JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D.

When America’s president must make decisions about how to transition from a shut-in citizenry (and shut-down economy) to post-isolationist advances toward resuming business-as-usual activities, it is time to learn a lesson about balance.

And balance it what we see in the athletic agility of mountain goats, adroitly ambulating alpine ascents of the Rocky Mountains.

Indeed, mountain goats provide creation science gems, plus a picture of how we need balance in the political arena, when healthcare concerns (including panicking citizens) must be balanced against the need to restore America’s economy and other vital aspects of normal daily living.

Why are mountain goats a picture of this problem? Because safely balancing a mountain goat’s body on steep alpine slopes and safely balancing the most vital needs of a nation’s people are high-risk situations, facing opposing forces and potential disasters.

How do you balance healthcare-risk shut-ins against society-destroying shutdowns?

To appreciate this comparison, mountain goats must be appreciated within their real-world habitats, just as the U.S. president (and other government officials) must make decisions that match real-world realities (not just speculative models).

Context matters!

Also, both situations — high-altitude mountain goats and high-stakes governmental decision-making — indispensably need God’s providential blessing, in all the many details, or else disaster awaits.

In other words, mountain goats provide sure-footed creation science exhibits of how much we need God’s wisdom and His providential blessings to safely journey through each day’s rocky challenges.

Consider, first, the agility of a mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), the sure-hoofed bovid that habituates the heights of North America’s Rocky Mountains and Cascade Range.

“For those of us who admit to some fear of heights, the Mountain Goat is an animal to be admired … This shaggy animal, its back hunched in a manner somewhat suggestive of a Bison, is a master at negotiating the steepest of precipices.

“Mountain Goats are truly alpine creatures. They commonly rest on high-elevation snowfields and find most of their food among the plants of alpine meadows.

“Their hooves are structured to [optimize] balance and grip; the outer hoof is strongly reinforced and the bottom is lined with rubbery material, making the whole structure rather like a good hiking boot. These animals nonchalantly cross dizzying ledges, sometimes even at a trot.”

In fact, the high-altitude dexterity of the mountain goat is so phenomenal that it routinely spends most of its time on precipitous terrain steeper than a 40° angle, and sometimes at pitches steeper than 60°, especially during winter.

Furthermore, the leg bones of the mountain goat are engineered to maximize a functional mix of several factors: precision balancing (such as perching all four hooves on a small spot), front-forward pulling power, propulsion leverage and maneuverability (for running and jumping), and stability (due to a low center of gravity) against tipping over.

“A mountain goat climbs with three-point suspension. … Lifting one limb at a time [it] frequently pauses to assess the situation, tests the footing, and if needed turns back and selects a different route.

“Slow, sure consistency allows life on rock steeper than the angle of repose. Because they are most likely the ones to find themselves in a tight spot, kids do most of the go-for-broke climbing.

“Although a kid might take four or five missteps per year, it salvages the situation almost every time.”

Thus, the mountain goats are aptly designed for moving on rocky slopes.

Mountain goats are instinctively careful, and they apply their characteristic agility as they test their environment.

Indeed, when predatory cougars try to attack them, the God-given instinct of mountain goats to flee — often successfully — is implemented by their agility and speed in and up these jagged rocky slopes and precipices!

But without the right physical traits for maintaining balance on rugged rocks mountain goats could not thrive, as they do, upon the harsh talus slopes and felsenmeer of their high-elevation habitat.

“The [mountain goat hoof-print] track’s squarish imprint is created by the hoof’s spreading tips. The sides of the toes consist of hard keratin, like that of a horse hoof.

“Each foot’s two wraparound toenails are used to catch and hold on to cracks and tiny knobs. … The front edge of the hoof tapers to a point, which digs into dirt or packed snow when [it] is going uphill. In contrast to a horse’s concave hoof, which causes the animal to walk on the rim of its toenail, a [mountain] goat’s hoof has a flexible central pad that protrudes beyond the nail.

“The pad’s rough texture provides [skid-resistant] friction on smooth rock or ice yet is pliant enough to impress itself into irregularities on a stone. Four hooves x 2 toes per hoof = 8 gripping soles per animal.

“As [mountain] goats descend a slope the toes spread widely, adjusting tension to fine-tune the grip. … This feature makes them more likely to catch onto something. It also divides the downward force of the weight on the hoof so that some of the animal’s total weight is directed sideways.

“Because there is less net force on each downward [pressure] line, the foot is less likely to slide. Think of it as the fanning out of downward forces over numerous points of friction.”

In a word, balance.

Carefulness is indispensable in the interactive details of every movement.

God purposefully designed high-elevation mountain goats for balance, because living life among high alpine rocks is a high-risk lifestyle.

Yet the same is equally true to balancing the healthcare concerns and economic necessities of everyone within American society.

Legitimate needs of both business opportunity “freedoms” and societal “security” are deliberately balanced with the God-given personal liberty rights of individuals.

Like a mountain goat perched atop a precarious precipice, safeguarding those God-given rights and freedoms is no lackadaisical endeavor.

The securing of those fundamental freedoms was not (and is not) easily obtained, nor is it easy to maintain those freedoms amidst the ubiquitously power-greedy politics of both the business community and governmental enterprises.

May God give enormous and timely wisdom to governmental, business, and other organizational decision-makers and providential prudence in exercising their respective powers as families and individuals try to responsibly make the best of our real-world predicaments.

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WHO IS QUALIFIED TO GIVE GOD ADVICE – The wisdom of the One who made the universe is now available to us to help us know the way we are to live and to help empower us to live that way - He who holds the oceans not only holds us but also lives within us - In Genesis 1, we find that the "Spirit of God was hovering over" the primordial deep waiting for God's word to bring the work of creation to completion. So, when Isaiah talks about God as Creator, he refers to the Spirit of the Lord. As beings created by the Spirit of the Lord, we are finite. While we can understand many things about our created universe, there are many more truths about our universe that remain shrouded in mystery. The Spirit of the Lord doesn't need our advice. We are not his consultants. He is Creator, and we are the created. He is infinite and glorious; we are finite and fallen. But rather than feeling discouraged or unimportant, we should take heart that the Spirit of the Lord now lives in us as followers of Christ. The power of the Creator is alive in us. The wisdom of the One who made the universe is now available to us to help us know the way we are to live and to help empower us to live that way. He who holds the oceans not only holds us but also lives within us!

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'Who Is Qualified to Give God Advice?'

The wisdom of the One who made the universe is now available to us to help us know the way we are to live and to help empower us to live that way - He who holds the oceans not only holds us but also lives within us

Phil Ware

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“Who else [besides God] has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?” — Isaiah 40:12-13 NLT

In Genesis 1, we find that the "Spirit of God was hovering over" the primordial deep waiting for God's word to bring the work of creation to completion.

So, when Isaiah talks about God as Creator, he refers to the Spirit of the Lord.

As beings created by the Spirit of the Lord, we are finite.

While we can understand many things about our created universe, there are many more truths about our universe that remain shrouded in mystery.

The Spirit of the Lord doesn't need our advice.

We are not his consultants.

He is Creator, and we are the created.

He is infinite and glorious; we are finite and fallen.

But rather than feeling discouraged or unimportant, we should take heart that the Spirit of the Lord now lives in us as followers of Christ.

The power of the Creator is alive in us.

The wisdom of the One who made the universe is now available to us to help us know the way we are to live and to help empower us to live that way.

He who holds the oceans not only holds us but also lives within us!

Today's Prayer

Father, you have told us to pray for wisdom, so I pray today for wisdom and discernment.

Give me the wisdom to make decisions that bless my family and those with whom you have given me influence.

Give me discernment to know how to plan and prepare for the opportunities ahead and to know how to react and respond both when things don't go well and when they do.

I know that this wisdom and discernment will come from your Spirit who lives in me, so I commit to yield my heart to your Spirit's influence and leading.

 In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

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