Have you ever noticed that what we know about nutrition keeps changing? I’m sure you have. One person has documentation showing that coffee is good for you, while another has proof it is bad.
When I was in grade school, I remember a nutrition lesson that stated an egg was the perfect food. It was high in protein, cheap, easy to prepare, and experts said we should eat plenty of eggs. During my college years, someone discovered eggs were high in cholesterol and we were told if you ate too many, you would have a heart attack and die. These experts recommended you should severely limit your intake of eggs.
Recently, I read an article stating that severe dementia is due in part to brain cells not getting the proper nutrition. What kind of food do brain cells need? Cholesterol. That article stated that eggs are a good source of the right kind of cholesterol for our brains.
Why do I feel we just made a complete circle? But it’s not just food. All around us people are trying to create the perfect person. Experts clamor for our attention, wanting us to follow them and their advice. Follow them to what? Long life, good health, utopia? Be careful. Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 7: 13-14, “Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
This world offers so many lifestyles, religions, aspirations, hopes and dreams, but where do they all lead? Are they all going in circles like the world of nutrition, promising great things only to end in confusion and disappointment?
There is only one path that leads to eternal life and Jesus told us how to get there. In John 14: 6 he said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Amid this world’s attempt to get our attention, God gives this simple instruction in Romans 12: 2, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” We can choose to follow the experts of this world as they lead us in circles, or heed God’s Word and walk the straight and narrow path which leads to everlasting life. Which makes sense to you?
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