What comes out of our toaster? Is our bread nicely browned, or do we like it charred to a crisp?
If we have an upset stomach, we want our toast burnt. It’s the charred portion that absorbs the stomach acid that makes us feel uncomfortable.
Yet how many people consider burnt toast fit for consumption? Only the sick person is willing to coat the blackened surface with enough jelly to choke it down.
What are we choking down that God tells us isn’t fit for consumption?
1 Corinthians 6:13 gives us a clear definition of burnt toast:
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.”
If we choose to continually consume that which is charred, we must be ill. Otherwise, why would we coat it in sweet words so that it seems palatable to us?
1 Corinthians 6:19 tells us we live in a body that comes from God, one who knows only purity:
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own…”
We can sully our temple and make it impure, but that’s our doing, not God’s. He wishes us to be clean and free from all wrongdoing.
2 Corinthians 5:17 shows us how to be well once again:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
When we come to Christ, we no longer desire the charred castoffs of this world. We are no longer ill, our stomach feels fine, and we can feast on the riches of his Word. We can find our satisfaction in him.
After all, only the truth of the Cross and Christ’s love for us is truly fit for human consumption.
When we dine on the truth of Christ, we never get an upset stomach.
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