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People often talk about food\u2013specifically, pleasurable, enjoyable food\u2013as if it\u2019s semi-sinful. As if it is wrong. <\/em>As if the pleasure a food affords is unfair, because it takes us off guard, traps us, entices us, and leads us astray.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard (and read<\/a>) good people who say things like why couldn\u2019t God make carrots and broccoli taste like chocolate caramels and marshmallows?<\/em><\/p>\n

And I have wondered the same thing. I once determined not to enjoy food. To eat abstemiously, only enough to remain alive, but not enough to be taken in by the temptations of taste; taste, to my mind at that time, being utterly gratuitous.<\/em><\/p>\n

But there it is, right there\u2013gratuitous.<\/strong> From the Latin meaning \u2018given freely.\u2019\u00a0<\/em>That\u2019s what taste is: a freely given extravagance, given us by God, given us for the purpose of knowing how gracious God is.<\/p>\n

Given so that in our days under the sun we may eat with joy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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