we need to be careful what we eat: be careful in choosing friends and companions!

We need to be careful in what we eat – not only physically, but also spiritually and psychologically. If we eat healthy food physically, we will have a proper growth and development, and our body will be supplied with good ingredients for its normal functioning. It is the same spiritually – if we eat good food, if we feed on Christ in a regular way, we will grow in life and develop the spiritual virtues needed for serving the Lord and functioning in the Body of Christ. This morning I was impressed with another aspect of our eating – we need to be discerning in contacting people and in establishing friendships. In Acts 10:11-15 there is the great sheet filled with unclean animals – which are a picture of unclean people – being presented to Peter in a trance, and in Leviticus 11 we see several kinds of animals, birds, fish, etc – all of which typify people. If we contact unclean people, even though we may not join them in their unclean or defiling actions, we will be affected – because when we contact people, “we eat”. We need to be careful in what we eat by exercising discernment in contacting people and having friends!  Continue reading this portion via,

being careful in what we eat by exercising discernment in contacting people and having friends