Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we'll listen to three segments where Paul teaches how food, yes food, preaches the

gospel to us. In this first segment, Paul teaches from Isaiah 55 and explains how food is meant

to remind us of the glory of God. Here's Paul with Delight Yourself in Rich Food.

So, with delight yourself in rich food. So here's what you need to understand.

God intentionally placed you in an amazingly multifaceted, beautiful, physical world.

You cannot, you just cannot live a day without bumping into the beauty of your world.

And what you need to understand is all of that glory is not meant to be an end in itself.

It's meant to be a means to an end that the glory of the

physical world would point you to the glory of God who created it. Now that's not just happenstance.

God intentionally formed his world in a way that it would reveal him.

I like to think of it this way.

You can't get up in the morning without bumping into God.

Because as Isaiah says, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

The whole earth is filled with his glory.

And one of the places you see that creation, creator connection is with food.

Food really does preach the gospel to us.

It's meant to do that.

I love how much of the glory of God in creation is edible.

And so the Bible gives us all kinds of food metaphors.

When you eat, it should produce in you worship,

not just because God is such a wonderful provider of your physical needs,

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