1 Corinthians 8:5-8 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live. But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled. Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do. The issue on the table is whether to eat food sacrificed to idols, which at a glance isn’t really a practical question today. The entirety of 1 Corinthians 8 is dedicated to this topic, and includes much more than discussion about food specifically. We hear things like: “knowledge puffs up while love builds up” (vs. 1), “whoever loves God is known by God” (vs 3), “An idol is nothing at all in the world” (vs 4), and “there is no God but one” (vs. 4). It is not about food, it’s about the value you place on food – or anything else in this world. By itself, what we eat has no bearing on how much we are loved or known by God. When I lose sight of this and apply “worship worth” to food, it has become an idol in my life. An idol is an idol because we worship it rather than the Father “from whom all things came and for whom we live”. Verse/Commentary courtesy of Verse-A-Day app. verse-a-day/Apps
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:09:09 +0000
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