Eating Sugar isn’t Sin
Baby Girl,
As you are watching all these recovery friends of yours flopping around on the deck like you used to, you’re taking your eyes off your own journey - you’re beginning to settle for less than the best. Are you aware of what I’m referring to?
Yes.
How many times have you stopped to refill your 40oz water bottle with coffee and get a sub-par donut for $2 at the gas station this week alone?
Why are you doing that?
Do you remember your headache last night? I’m going to give you a hint: you’ve had coffee enough recently that your body is forming a dependency already. Habits born of fleshly desire are developed quickly and broken with much intention and discomfort.
We talked this week about how the world lies. What lies are you believing that are leading you to behave in ways that are in direct opposition to the healthy body you say you want to have?
Your first bite of that donut today, you had the thought, “I don’t know why I keep buying these. They don’t even taste that good.”
Let’s do more than just wonder. Let’s talk it out.
Why did Eve take that first bite?
It looked good.
You have five senses. They are all part of your flesh. Your flesh is sinful.
You and I both know that there is no food that is sin but, at this point in our walk, there is food that is sin for you. Not because that food is evil or from the devil because the truth is I created everything that went into that donut and I gave men the creativity necessary to come up with that idea.
Sin enters when that food becomes an emotional substitute for nourishment only I can provide. When you use any food or substance out of the context of nourishment, you enter into the enemy’s territory.
Do not apply what I am saying to you to one other person because this is…
You automatically started thinking about Romans 14. Good.
If I were to tell you that for you and ONLY you - no one else on earth - intentionally choosing to eat processed sugar was a sin, do you believe you could live without it?
And here come the questions…
Yes, you could still purchase and provide processed sugar to others. Remember, there’s nothing innately sinful about sugar.
Your mind is echoing the word “hamartia.” Yes. If I were to say that for you, consuming processed sugar is hamartia, do you believe you could live without it?
You know that you could live without it, so you’re right - that’s the wrong question. Are you willing, for the sake of sanctification, to live the rest of your life without it?
This conversation just went from a hypothetical question to one I would like you to answer.
Baby Girl, I can’t think of a time when you consumed processed sugar in a moderate and healthy manner. For you, consuming processed sugar is hamartia.
And tears. Am I asking something unreasonable? Do you wish to argue against my logic? I’m willing to hear you out.
I don’t want to take anything good from you. Defining good is a feature of free will and, as you know, how we define things shapes the life we live.
For the next two weeks, prayerfully consider this conversation. Go ahead and finish the sugary coffee you’ve been drinking while I’m talking to you.
This isn’t the first time I have brought this concept to you but it is time for you to make a decision and it is not one I want you to make in a reactive or cavalier manner.
Cavalier = dismissive
I want you to have a rich life and, for you, consuming rich foods comes from a place of spiritual poverty. Remember what you found in the kitchen when you began to explore the palace? Food is a delight! The Bread of Life and the Living Water hold everything your heart could ever want, need, or desire.
If every time your flesh longed for processed sugar, you ran to commune with Me, the peace and joy you are experiencing now would pale in comparison.
Think it over.
I LOVE you.
Daddy
Romans 14:20,22-23
