This is a diet you will never know unless you are a committed Christian. It is the diet of excellent health, the next topic in our series on Divine Health. Our previous posts will lead to health but only as a remedy. When you suffer from some form of ill health, your doctor will give you eating advice like the ones in our prior posts. Then the health problem will decrease. But with this diet, you will not know one day of illness. We call it the highest diet because that is what our highest example ate.
To give you a hint, how many times did Jesus have a headache? The answer? Not once. And this is the basis for some committed Christians living what is known as a fasted life. They want to live healthy all the time. I know one such man. For the past 48 years, he has not needed to take even one pain relief pill. He never falls ill and that is because he is following the highest diet.
By now, you are suspecting this is not a diet you can buy from a grocery store or a restaurant. It is the diet on which Jesus lived. He said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” Now you see why we said what we did at the beginning. Unless one is a committed Christian, he will never know of the highest diet. But if you are willing to be obedient, as we see in Isaiah 1.19, this diet is a lifestyle you can embrace today.
The Highest Diet Protects Against Pressure
When you adopt total obedience as Jesus did, you will start to partake of the highest diet. And here is what God says will happen to you. The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. You shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. This type of growing fat is not obesity but total satisfaction.
The highest diet has an additional advantage. Just as it protected Jesus against societal pressures to conform, it can do the same for you. Before Jesus told them the secret of the highest diet, his disciples were trying to get him to eat something. In the same way, the world is always trying to give you something to eat. It could be physical food or a lie of satan on social media.
But Jesus was able to resist such pressure because he had food that no one knew about. The followers had no idea what his diet was but now that you are reading this, you know. The highest diet that satisfies you to the maximum is total obedience to the voice of God. If God says stand up, you do, regardless that everybody else is sitting down.
That is the only way you can resist societal pressure, which comes to us in many forms. Take TV advertisements for example. The people who spend money advertising food know the power of advertisement. You too know because as soon as you see one, you become hungry. It does not matter that you have just eaten.
But with the highest diet, you can resist societal pressure to keep eating, just like Jesus did. Think of what that will do for your waistline, not to mention your wallet. It is a win-win situation. But there is more.
God Will Always Honor Total Obedience
Toward the end of his early life, hear what Jesus was able to say to His Father in prayer. “I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” That is glorious, to say the least.
The Apostle Paul was also able to pray a similar prayer. And only because, once he was born again on the Damascus road, he lived in total obedience to God. In other words, he ate the highest diet and God honored him. Are you able to eat this diet that Jesus ate and which allowed Him to complete His divine assignment?
You now know what to do. The choice is open to each of us. You can choose total obedience, aka, the highest diet or you can go the way of disobedience. If you choose to obey, the Sun of Righteousness will appear to you with healing in his wings. You will be like that man who has not had one headache in the 48 years since he chose total obedience.
To your health!
Maranatha!
