“To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.” (Titus 1:15)
The Jews had become so accustomed to fixation on ceremony and the avoidance of unclean foods that they missed some of the deeper lessons. Food can never defile the soul of a man; in fact, nothing external can. The defilement of someone must come from within. It is only when the inner mind objectifies the opposite gender that lust is born, and it is only when the covetous heart springs up that another’s success turns into jealousy and rivalry.
Gluttony, greed, lies, and a thousand other evils spring up from the wellsprings of the human heart. The battle isn’t without – it is within. Once we subdue the inner man, the outer world cannot harm us, and we can find purity even in the darkest hours of our life. Paul and Silas sang with reverence from a prison, and Herod mocked God from his palatial estate. Give a godly soul any experience and they can make it pure… give a villain any setting and he can defile it.
Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites