Knowing Him Daily

18.April.2026

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. Genesis 1:31

Before there was a grocery store, a drive-through, or a nutrition label, there was a garden. In that garden God looked at everything He had made, including the human body, and called it very good. Not adequate, not functional enough to get by, but very good, and that matters more than we sometimes stop to consider.

That matters more than we sometimes stop to consider, because it means your body was not an afterthought. It was not a temporary container to carry you from birth to heaven and then get discarded. It was designed with intention, by the same God who set the stars in place and counted every hair on your head, and He built it to move, to heal, to fight, to restore, and to thrive on the food He also created. The design and the fuel came from the same hand.

The disconnect we are living with today is not a new problem, but it has gotten louder in many parts of the world. If you are in the United States, the standard American diet, known as the “SAD,” has been built largely around things engineered to be eaten rather than grown to nourish, and many of us were handed that diet before we were old enough to ask any questions about it. Refined grains, sugar-dense convenience foods, seed oils processed at high heat, and ingredient lists that read like a chemistry exam that line the center aisles of every grocery store in the country, and for a long time, because everyone around us was eating the same things. It’s never occurred to us to wonder why we were so tired, so inflamed, so foggy. Many countries have begun adopting these same patterns as processed food becomes more globally accessible, but if you are somewhere that has held onto traditional whole food eating, I genuinely applaud that, because what previous generations understood intuitively, science is now working hard to catch up to.

Here is the first simple swap worth making, and it does not require a total kitchen overhaul. When you reach for something packaged, pause for just a second and ask one question: could I make a version of this from real ingredients? You do not have to do that, just ask. That small pause may begin to shift the way you think about food, from convenience first to design first, and that shift is where everything starts.

An apple and a handful of almonds instead of chips from a bag. Eggs scrambled in real butter instead of a breakfast bar wrapped in plastic. Rice with a little seasoning instead of a boxed mix loaded with additives. Nothing dramatic, nothing expensive, just a step back toward the original design.

He made you very good, and feeding that body well is simply your agreement with what He already said about you. Not vanity, not obsession, just a step towards honoring the design.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.