Going bananas
I found out a few days ago that eating any normal banana we buy at the grocery store is not the same one we would have tasted if we were shopping 50 years ago, (and not just because it hadn’t been grown yet, smart alecks!). Since farmers are coating their fruit in pesticides and growth hormones, and picking their crops well before they are ripe; the fruit looses its God-given nutrients. It looks like a normal banana, but in fact, to get the same nutrients found in a natural, “home grown” banana, we would have to eat FOURTEEN typical grocery-store bananas! That’s unreal!
No wonder we are overweight (we eat more to adjust for the poor quality of what is inside of us). No wonder we are searching for something more in life (can the pitiful selection of foods we eat actually persuade our spiritual hunger?). We view efficiency and quanity over natural growth and quality. God knows that all good things will take time. With farmers picking fruit before harvest time, our culture’s instant gratification now affects the very fruits of the earth!
Do we sterilize and dillute the “fruit” in our lives? Jesus equates human “fruit” with the outward actions as related to the inner soul of a person. Our fruit becomes healthier as we learn to rely on nothing more than the sun, the rain, and the seed. What are the pesticides in our life? What are the healthiest sources to receive nutrients?
