NOVEMBER 11 "SABBATH FOR THE LAND?"

If all your life you’ve eaten a “healthy” diet.  You’ve followed the USDA Food Pyramid from the beginning, and were always told supplements were unnecessary as long as you ate a balanced diet (whatever that means). Maybe you’re wiser now, and are following a higher nutrient diet.  Either way, one of the most repeated beliefs among health conscious people is that you can – and should – get all of your nutrients from food.  With over fifty percent of the nation consuming a multivitamin, this isn’t a universal belief.  However, multivitamins often make people think they can eat even worse, which isn’t exactly productive.  Many people are shamed into avoiding supplements with statements like “So you’re too lazy to eat real food?  You think you can fix everything with a pill?”  We all have those health conscious friends who decry supplementation as dogma.  They are confusing drugs like statins with nutrients.  They are not the same. In any case, you’re not dead yet, so you must be getting the right nutrients.  Supplements are unnecessary… right? Not so, they are necessary. Improper farming practices that are being used today deplete the soil of its nutrients.  When plants and vegetables are repeatedly grown on the same land, the soil loses nutrients faster than they can be replaced.  Over time, the plants have fewer nutrients to grow.  Fertilizer contains just enough nutrition for the plant to survive until harvesting, but not enough to support human health. Experts say today the land has been so depleted of it’s nutrients that it is false to think, that we can get by with just eating vegetables because those vegetables do not contain half the vitamins they once contained  because the soil has been depleted of all it’s nutrients. It’s interesting that in the Old Testament, in the Book of Leviticus, God commanded the people do give the land a Sabbath rest. That Sabbath was often disregarded back then as it is today. God commands us to also have a Sabbath and the Sabbath is meant for us in the same way it was meant for the land. In the 7th year the Israelites were told to give the land rest, to allow it a year of rest to replenish its nutrients. You and I have both met and run into the human who disregards the Sabbath.He or she is a worn and depleted human being, with nothing to offer, depleted of all nutrients. Can we seethe wisdom of God in the Sabbath?  Jesus so aptly tells us in the Gospels, “man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was made for man”. That is really something to think about and ask yourself, "are you enjoying the Sabbath?"

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