One Stalk of Broccoli & One Push-Up
Prevnar 13 is a vaccine used to prevent a type of pneumonia in adults over 50 years old as well as other 12 other strains of diseases in other demographics. The company that manufactures Preener 13, Wyeth, and marketed by Pfizer, has a commercial on TV that suggests it would be nice if eating one stalk of broccoli could prevent cancer or doing one push-up could give you good health the rest of your life.
Of course, we all know that is not possible. You cannot even talk vitamins once and that be sufficient for the rest of your life. If I could eat one bowl of kale, and not have to eat anything else healthy the rest of my life, I could do it. If I could get by with eating one bowl of quinoa and be set, health-wise, for the rest of my life, I would do it.
Then, I would eat all the jellybeans I could (they’re my favorite legume). I would eat all the candy corn I wanted (my favorite vegetable). I would eat fried chicken (“Preach the word and eat the bird”) all the time. Pizza, steak, ice cream, cream-filled doughnuts. One stalk of broccoli and one push-up and you could do what you want the rest of your life.
Why didn’t God create us that way? Why didn’t God create us so that one apple would have all the vitamins, nutrients, and minerals that we would need for a whole day? Or a whole week? Or, for that matter, a whole lifetime? Why did God design us so that we would need to eat periodically, three to four times a day, and we would need a variety of vitamins and nutrients from a wide range of foods? Why?
Feel free to offer your own suggestions but my opinion is that God is teaching us to be disciplined. God is teaching us that there are choices that we need to make on a daily, even an hourly basis. If you want to be healthy, if you want to enjoy life in your “golden years,” then you’ll need to make wise choices now – healthy food and exercise. God designed us so that we would need to make these decisions daily.
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He also designed us so that we would need to walk with him on a daily basis. “Give us this day our daily bread” is a prayer Jesus implies we need to pray daily. We should “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). Daily prayer reflects daily trust in God.
Add to that a daily Bible reading and meditation (1 Tim. 4:13), and you’ve got some healthy spiritual discipline. Put that daily Bible reading into practice by living it and teaching it and you’ll see God’s word come to life in your own walk and in the lives of others.
But God also designed some weekly spiritual discipline for our lives – observing the Lord’s Supper (Acts 20:7), giving from our income (1 Cor. 16:2), and having fellowship with fellow Christians (Heb. 10:25) and you make your spirit stronger week by week. Throw in some hearty singing of songs, hymns, and spiritual songs (Eph. 5:19) as a congregation and in your personal life (James 5:13) and you’ll be fully prepared to handle the obstacles Satan throws at you.
You can’t be healthy with one stalk of broccoli and one push-up. Nor can you be so, spiritually, with only a few Bible verses memorized and a prayer said by rote. Skipping worship also weakens you.
–Paul Holland
