TAKE FOOD AND DRINK

 

Another way out of depression according to the story is food and drink. Maraming dramang bukid at lungkot dahil sa gutom lang. Kaya maraming mga sumasama ang lagay sa sobrang pagdi-diyeta. Mayroon pa ngang tuluyang namamatay, mayroong nade-depress kasi sa pagtitiis na huwag kumain para mapagkasya ang kanilang katawan sa sinturon ng payong. Nagkaka-depress-depress dahil nagkaka-imba-imbalance ang chemistry ng katawan.

GENESIS 1:29 Then God said, “ I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”

Isang chapter pa lang ng Genesis, ang inaasikaso na ng Diyos ay ang pagkain ng tao. Ibig sabihin, dapat kumain ang tao.

Matthew 11:19 “The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, “Here is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Maski kailan hindi natin nakitang nag-fast ang Panginoong Hesus except for the forty days when He was being tried by the devil. He focused on the trial or on whatever He is doing but elsewhere He was always eating and drinking. Kaya ang tinawag sa Kanya ay “matakaw” o glutton at drunkard ng mga critics Nya na laging nag-aayuno. Sabi nila, “Bakit hindi nag-aayuno yung amo ninyo? Di tulad namin.” Ini-equate ng maraming tao yung kabanalan sa pag-aayuno. But what we need is physical sustenance. Eating not only gives you chemical balance but also social balance because it is expected that you eat with other people. Hindi ka lang nagpunta sa isang sulok at sinaksakan mo ng kung anu-anong bitamina ang loob ng iyong sikmura kung hindi may pakikisalamuha at pakikipagkapwa na nangyayari kapag kumakain ka. Napakahusay nating mga Pilipino dyan. Marahil dahil mayroon din tayong background of slight poverty. Alam natin kung ano ang nararamdaman ng nagugutom at kinakapos sa pagkain kaya tuwing may kinakain tayo, kahit may kagat na yung sandwich natin, sasabin natin. “Gusto mo?” Nang-aalok pa tayo. Hindi pwede sa atin yung kumakain tapos hindi tayo nang-aalok. Kasi gusto natin makasama ang tao sa ating pagkain. Pakikisalamuha. At yun ang ginagawa ng Panginoon noon. He was not eating just for the sake of eating, but He was also socializing because He was giving them the kingdom of God. And the Lord was dealing with people where they were. Hindi Nya pinapunta sa temple. Hindi Nya pinapunta sa seminaryo, hindi Nya pinapunta doon sa matataas na tore ng relihiyon. Pinuntahan Nya ang mga tao kung saan naroon sila kung kaya Siya ay na-criticize ng mga mapagkunwaring mga relihiyosong tao ng Kanyang panahon. Ang sabi ni Solomon na pinakamarunong na tao

Ecclesiastes 8:15….nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accoumpany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun. There’s nothing wrong with taking life easy, eating, drinking and being marry. But what’s wrong is when there’s no balance. When you do it against your personal holiness or against the teachings of God. Pero gusto ng Diyos na tayo’y magkaroon ng abundant life.