Psalm 145:15

Psalm 145:15

He gives us our food

Do you remember the words of Genesis 1:30 describing the time after God had finished His creative works, and the earth was brimming with life and was glowing with the energy and perfection in which it had been created? This is what we read, “And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food. And it was so.” In the next chapter we read how God made man and gave him every tree in the Garden to eat from, apart from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of Life. (Our earliest ancestors were vegetarians until eating meat was permitted, after the flood.)

The Bible is clear, that God not only created a beautiful world for us all to inhabit, and He not only breathed life into all living things, but He also went on to set up food chains and to provide everything that is necessary for all creatures to exist and thrive. Life cycles are part of His agenda, and their regulations are written into the earth that He provided for us. Seasons were brought into play so that we would all have our food at the proper time, the whole world operates according to a very complex timetable, it’s only in recent times that men have thrown this out of the window by moving food supplies around the world so that we can eat and drink produce that would not normally be available in our immediate areas. Never-the-less, the food production conveyor belt was not designed by men, it is far too complex for us, it was God who put it in place for our good and for the good of every living thing. How easy it is to forget this, when we walk into a supermarket and buy whatever our appetites desire. Perhaps we should try, next time we go grocery shopping, to look around and marvel at the provision of this amazing God and not take for granted that we are able to access many foods outside of their proper time! 

 

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