You have bowed to the burger king and worshiped him... says the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me.
#IDOLATRYWARNING
That is a warning that I received a couple of years ago. As I had become more aware of the temptations that I faced in the world, after some time my eyes were opened to what was triggering in me some bad eating habits that led me on some occasions to commit the sin of gluttony.
Gluttony: excessive eating and drinking.
Synonyms: gormandizing, intemperance, voracity.
Gluttony is due to a lack of self-control. It's obeying to a desire for a certain taste of food or beverage that leads to eat beyond the need of the body. The mere pursuit of the sensuality involved in eating/drinking can be a powerful driver apart from any actual need of the body for food, and then things can get really dangerous really fast.
Fullness:
The condition of being filled to capacity.
That is a control mechanism.
An undue affection for food can become a form of idolatry of the food and/or of your belly. Be especially cautious when thoughts like "I've got to have it" (said of a particular food), possibly triggered by the memory of the look/smell/taste/texture of some food, come before any actual need for food, and drive you to seek that food and shun/refuse other food, even waste other good food that you may have, in an act of pure vanity. That same temptation, when you give in to it, is an open door that can lead you to eat excessively, and therefore to commit the sin of gluttony.
Notice that your self-control could be up against up to 4 of your 5 senses, or all 5 if the sound of handling or chewing on something is stimulating you to eat (more of) it. It's a choice, it's always a choice to resist the temptation and avoid the sin. God commands it (James 4:7). Take note also that the simplest trigger for seeking food is the feeling of hunger. Though it is not sin to seek some particular food, you should check your motives always and watch your behavior also. As with all things, strive to have an eating "order," a discipline. Differentiate between that internal natural signal and other artificial stimuli in your environment, like seeing a restaurant advertisement, or simply recalling from your memory an "experience" that may be driving your eating habits outside of a healthy established order.
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Proverbs 23:1-2
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: 2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
Ecclesiastes 10:17
Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Matthew 4:4
...“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’
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Self-control is from God (Galatians 5:23). Seek Him. Seek his Holy Spirit to guide you. It's a gift of God to those who obey Him (Acts 5:30-32).
Luke 11:9-13
9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Galatians 5:19-23
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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