Don’t Worry About Food, Jesus Says — Too Little Or Too Much!

Jesus advised his listeners—struggling fishermen, and poor people without enough food for guests, not to worry about what they were going to eat. Which, of course, is still relevant today for many.

However, with immense societal pressure to be slender, along with an obesogenic food environment—sugary & carby food everywhere—Jesus still counsels us not to worry about what we eat. Eat what is set about you, he advised his disciples. For our age of weight obsession, Jesus offers alternative strategies like fasting (which he promises brings us a reward from God).

What would Jesus’s way of getting fitter & healthier be? Fasting? Intuitive spirit-guided eating? Obeying the great commandment to love God by praying, listening to Scripture or Christian literature as we walk? And the second commandment—to love our neighbor as ourselves? Could we get fitter running our house well? Keeping up with the garden? Walking with friends? Exercising to be fit enough to do what God has called us to do?