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I liked this passage. It really brings together that the world is meant to reflect God,and that instead of seeing it as a prohibition from God, look at it as a pointer to God. While this is true, I don't think that the world should become our God. If food IS getting between us and God, we should not let it keep its hold, and break it through fasting, dieting, etc. I think this also ties into the fact that everything physical has some sort of spiritual connection too. such as when Elijah made the offering to God on Mount Caramel, Elijah literally sacrificed to God, he sacrificed water which was a huge necessity back then. I believe that has a spiritual connection, and God honored that. I also like his point on how the sin is to no longer be hungry for God. In another book, I read that it is literally like our appetite of food. If we feast on sweets and sugar foods, we wont want to eat our bread and meat because we are so used to the immediate satisfaction of the sweets, and so we get stuck in this cycle and become spiritually sick, fat, and inactive. This is where Satan wants us, but not God. So, we must break the cycle, and go for a while without sweets, and begin eating the meat, and drink the waters that God offers us. I believe this is seen as fasting, not just reading, but studying God's word, and praying earnestly to learn more about God, and this will make us spiritually strong.
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