Beware of the Food - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

There were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:1

Beware of the Food
Food poisoning is the most dreaded of all diseases of nutrition. Not only is it harmful, but it is often fatal. Any sensible person will shun food if he suspects that it is poisoned, no matter how hungry he is or how good the food appears.

For some reason, many Christians do not take the matter as seriously when it comes to spiritual food. Is the body more important than the soul? Peter gives us one of the common denominators of these false teachers when he says that they deny the Master. Jude says, "denying our only Master," and John says, "denies the Father and the Son." Peter also exposes their methods as being underhanded exploitation by false words. The sad thing is that many "shall follow their dissolute ways." But their success is short-lived because they will be "bringing upon themselves swift destruction." The way to escape the danger of spiritual food poisoning, Peter tells us, is "to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your apostles"—mindful of the Bible!

Paul's frequent exhortations to Timothy, his beloved son in the faith, are quite significant: "Give thyself to reading to teaching Give heed to thyself and to the teaching" (, 16). "Study to show thyself approved unto God rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings" of those who have erred concerning the truth (2 Tim. 2:15-16 kjv). May we say with the psalmist, "With my whole heart have I sought Thee: let me not wander from Thy commandments" (Ps. 119:10).

A. M. Behnam