What Really Matters by Clinton A. Macomber

• Title Page
• Introduction
• General Overview
• Daniel 1:1-6
• Daniel 1:7-21
  • The Importance of a Biblical Diet
  • Diet in Scripture
  • Quoted
  • Did You Know?
  • Daily Devotion Guide
  • Word Find Puzzle
• Daniel 2
• Daniel 3
• Daniel 4
• Daniel 5
• Daniel 6
• Daniel 7
• Daniel 8
• Daniel 9
• Daniel 10
• Daniel 11
• Daniel 12

Diet in Scripture

Bread is a comfort food.

Genesis 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

The blessings of Canaan include butter from cows, lamb meat, grains and grapes are the provisions for food from God.

Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Dinners of vegetables are far better where there is love, than banquets where there is hatred.

Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

We are to be careful when eating the rich foods of the rich and not eat very much of them.

Proverbs 23:1-3 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

God commands that we drink goats milk instead of other kinds.

Proverbs 27:27 And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

There is a day coming when those that eat luxuriously will eat dung.

Lamentations 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Christ gave the disciples fish and honeycomb.

Luke 24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.