Genesis 3:18b. God Says to Eat Your Vegetables.

Genesis 3:18b “…and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”

    I’m so glad God didn’t take all fruit away from humanity when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. God’s justice is not retributive, it is restorative, if we cooperate. Instead of diminishing our dietary options, God increased them, but somehow we still find reasons to complain. While divine judgment did not remove pleasure from the palate, compared to Eden eating, post-fall cuisine seemed to take a fall of its own. Let’s face it, most vegetables just don’t taste quite as nice as nuts, fruits and grains. Some are downright bitter unless you doctor them up. Yet God’s command is emphatic: eat vegetables. 

    For one thing, our least favorite vegetable flavors ought to remind us that the indulgence of taste buds got us into this mess in the first place. If we discipline our appetite and choose to eat herbs and vegetables in obedience to God’s command, we will reap enormous benefits at every level, phsycial, mental and spiritual. Unfortunately, many today would rather worship food and flavor and the clamors of their limbic system than the God of heaven, and thus set themselves up for successive future failures. What about you? Are you bringing your taste buds into subjection? Are you eating your vegetables?