Devotion Corner
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Our God is a gracious God who provides lovingly for our daily needs. Here we see the Lord’s provision for mankind in a very different world from what Noah had known before the Flood. A significantly altered environment now required a significantly altered nutritional intake for our bodies. The Lord knowing this need for expanded sustenance, allowed the consuming of animal meat so that mankind, the crowning glory of His Creation, could receive the nutrition needed to be fruitful and multiply.
This God ordained provision of meat eating, has been dramatically besieged in recent years with the near hysterical adoption of veganism. Whilst seemingly an insignificant movement by itself, as part of a growing societal shift of the abandoning of God’s outline for a blessed society as seen in Genesis 9:1-17, we see a greater battle unfolding. A battle for the hearts of nations.
When a society calls an ordination of God a ‘bad thing’, as seen in this matter of the consumption of meat, we are witnessing a society move away from God and towards darkness. As Scripture warns, woe unto those who call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20). Many nations are adopting a life that is barrelling headfirst into the just wrath of God.
We are not to be downhearted however, but once again seek the provision of Our Lord. As He has provided for our bodily need in a much changed world, so too will He provide for our spiritual needs in a much changed world. This lost world is still viable as a means of being fruitful and multiplying. Whilst the physical aspect of this command has never been revoked, the spiritual aspect is greater than ever!
This world, in its shift to darkness, is providing an opportunity for the light of the Gospel to shine ever brighter. Against the filth of this realm, the purity of the Word of God must be defended and shared with all. Thereby, many more souls might see how the Lord has always lovingly provided for our daily needs, in both the physical and the spiritual. Amen.
