Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him.
G. K. Chesterton once remarked that “it was certainly odd that the modern world charged Christianity at once with bodily austerity and with artistic pomp. But then it was also odd, very odd, that the modern world itself combined extreme bodily luxury with an extreme absence of artistic pomp. The modern man thought Becket’s robes too rich and his meals too poor. But then the modern man was really exceptional in history; no man before ever ate such elaborate dinners in such ugly clothes.” In a funny way, Chesterton’s observation relates to today’s verse. For it shows what talent we human beings have for getting our priorities backwards. Sweating about food while remaining oblivious to love is exactly contrary to what we need to be doing. What matters is the love and beauty that goes out of the heart, not the food that goes into the belly. Today, try to spend some time straightening out priorities a bit and making sure your heart and life is full of love.
