Vegetarian. Vegan. Keto. Noom. Atkins. Zone. South Beach. Those are just a few of the diet plans being touted as cure-alls. Some eliminate all meat; others focus on meat. And don’t you love the new “meatless” meat that we now find in the fast-food restaurants and in our local supermarket “meat” counters. “Meatless” meat that is made from the same ingredients as we find in dogfood does not really appeal to me. I wonder if people would buy it if we called it “Alpo-Burgers.” Sorry, that’s that way my mind is running this morning.
When it comes to our diets, and our health, I think it is the blind leading the blind. That image comes from Jesus. He used it in a parable in Luke 6:39-40: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?” [NKJV]
Unfortunately, while Jesus’ parable is relevant to our diets and health, it is even more so to our spiritual condition, which is Jesus’ original intent. I see just as much “blind leading the blind” about Christianity as I do about diets and health. People profess to know exactly what God wants. They are constantly referring to “what would Jesus do or say” when they themselves don’t actually know what Jesus “would do or say.” When Jesus spoke, He spoke from knowledge of the Holy; He was raised in the Scriptures of the Old Testament.
He said to the devil during the temptation in the wilderness, “It is written….” [Matt 4:4]
He said to the chief priests and rulers, “Have you never read in the Scriptures….” And “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.” [Matt 22:29, 42]
If we don’t want to be the “blind” following “the blind” we better know exactly what is written in God’s Word, otherwise when they fall into the ditch, we are going to be right behind them.
