THE MIRACLE OF EATING
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THE MIRACLE OF EATING
"
always giving thanks to God the Father for
everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ"
(Ephesians 5:20, NIV).
"
give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's
will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:18,
NIV).
The Yoruba people have a form of greetings for every
occasion. One of such forms of greetings especially to
someone that is eating is translated literally, "The
food will pass through the right passage." Such form of
greetings may not be meaningful to a novice in
physiology or somebody who does not care about how the
food we eat, and even water we drink, get to their
destination in the stomach before the digestive process
commence.
Such ignorance and/or carelessness do not make people
appreciate God for the miracle of eating and even
drinking water. To them, eating and drinking water are
ones of such ordinary and normal routines of life.
However, they are indeed miracles. Interestingly, some
Yoruba people jokingly tell someone that is eating that
he is performing a miracle. (The word "miracle" in
Yoruba etymologically means "the opening of the
mouth.")
Eating food and dinking water may be ones of those
things that are ordinary and normal to us, but they are
indeed ones of the miracles of God. It is when they
mistakenly pass through the wrong passage or when we
are unable to eat because of an ailment that we
appreciate them as miracles.
For this reason, we should always be grateful to God
not only for providing our foods, but also for enabling
us "to perform the miracle" without any accident during
the act. We should also learn to thank Him for other
seemly ordinary and normal routines of life. For "The
steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies
never come to an end" (Lamentations 3:22, RSV).
Lord, thank you for the miracle of eating!
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).
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