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Health and Nutrition
for Our
Physical Future
Since
1995, our family has been extremely
blessed by our individual and
corporate pursuit of the Holy One
from a Messianic perspective. Not
only have we discovered our specific
calls to teach and encourage others
to mature in their respective walks
of faith, but we have also benefited
spiritually and physically by
following God’s instruction manual
for living by faith in Him. By
focusing our attention on Yeshua,
the Word made flesh, and finally
studying the Torah consistently, we
have learned what He has commanded
us to do and not do. We are no
longer ignorant about what God
declares will bless us or curse us.
We praise the Lord for His
faithfulness to our household!
Recently in our pursuit of God
(2007) and
in our desire to please Him—coupled
perhaps with the reality of
attending to the needs of our aging
parents—the following verses have
taken on a more meaningful reality,
as our parents’ bodies and minds are
succumbing to the ravages of time:
“Or do you not know that your body
is a temple of the Holy Spirit who
is in you, whom you have from God,
and that you are not your own?
For you have been bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your
body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Perhaps you can identify with our
realization that, as Margaret and I
move through our fifties, we are far
more aware of how our “temporary
tabernacles” or “temples” are aging.
These bought and paid for vessels of
the Holy Spirit are as susceptible
to age just as our parents’ bodies are.
Consequently for the past year
(2006),
Margaret has done some intensive
research on her new “hobby” that we
have labeled: “health and
nutrition for our physical future.”
In the course of examining this
broad subject, the two of us came to
the recognition that while we have
spent an inordinate amount of time
encouraging and teaching people
about how to grow in their walk with
the Messiah, we have not devoted
much energy to letting people know
about how they can keep their
physical bodies in the best possible
shape for serving the Risen Savior.
Of course, we encourage people to be
Biblically kosher in what they eat,
but recognize that even some of the
clean meats are being tampered with
for the sake of profits.
Additionally, due to fertilization
and pesticides, even our vegetables
and fruits are not like they were a
hundred years ago.
I do not know about you, but I
recall reading in Genesis that the
original intent of God was that our
flesh would last 120 years:
“Then the LORD said, ‘My Spirit
shall not strive with man forever,
because he also is flesh;
nevertheless his days shall be one
hundred and twenty years’”
(Genesis 6:3).
At another point in time after the
Flood, I recall the faithful Caleb
describing his strength at the age
of eighty-five—and I immediately
decided I wanted that same kind of
strength when I turned eighty-five:
“Now behold, the LORD has let me
live, just as He spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that
the LORD spoke this word to Moses,
when Israel walked in the
wilderness; and now behold, I am
eighty-five years old today. ‘I am
still as strong today as I was in
the day Moses sent me; as my
strength was then, so my strength is
now, for war and for going out and
coming in’” (Joshua 14:9-11).
While some might only want to live
seventy or if due to strength
eighty, the challenge becomes living
whatever amount of time the Lord
gives you with a body and mind that
are both healthy:
“As for the days of our life, they
contain seventy years, or if due to
strength, eighty years,
yet their pride is but labor
and sorrow; for soon it is gone and
we fly away” (Psalm 90:1-10).
We
are aware of many in the Messianic
community of faith who are not
properly taking care of their
bodies. We also understand that
nutritionally speaking, the food
that we are ingesting on a
consistent basis may simply not be
what it used to be for previous
generations. In many respects, some
of us are literally starving our
bodies and minds from some of the
necessary and critical nutrients,
vitamins, and minerals that prolong
good health.
As a family we have embarked on a
health regimen that we want to share
with others who are also interested
in not just their spiritual growth,
but also being physically and
mentally fit to be useful in the
Lord’s work. If you have any
interest in learning from our
experience, please e-mail us at
info@outreachisrael.net or call us
at (407) 933-2002
so we can share with you some of the
things we have learned and what we
are doing to maintain our health for
the decades of service to come.
It is never too late to change your
body chemistry, as the saying goes:
“you are what you eat.” The
challenge is making the commitment
to change, and making it now,
before it is too late!
To life!
Mark & Margaret Huey
Huey House International
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