Raw Foods and the Reward

I was at a health food store this week in London and they talked me into a
raw foods diet for 30 days. There I learned why many Europeans are so
slender. You see, during the world wars they didn't have a lot of food so
they learned to ration. It was found that the generations after the wars not
only lived the longest but were the most robust and healthiest people that
lived in modern times. The body apparently uses the most essential vitamins
and minerals when there is less to eat. This generation though they ate
less, they ate foods that were good for them, mostly raw. The abundance of
food and it's readily accessibility in the west may be the downfall of
American health and the cause of the increase in obesity especially among
children. There is an obvious lack of discipline and moderation. Maybe there
is a connection to what Paul writes in the Scriptures: "whatever you do,
whether you eat, or you drink, do all to the glory of God." Today is not a
time for feasting, but for fortitude. …it is a time for self discipline not
self indulgence; for training, not channel surfing. I think one of the
reasons we have become a self-indulgent culture is because we have lost
sight of the reward. When you have something you long for, there is
motivation and a willingness to endure hardship. Becoming self-disciplined
in our self-indulgent culture is no easy task. So what is the reward? It is
the abundant life that God has planned for us. It is God giving us the
desires of our hearts. It is experiencing the exceedingly abundantly above
all that we can ask or think! Growing in self-discipline and godliness
requires war time sacrifice that will lead to the most robust, physically
and spiritually healthy generation in recorded history.