Wow!!! So am back today with a gigantic wave and a very pressing issue in town, A friend of mine asked me this same question in school recently and I told her – Well, It is important we obey the 2nd Commandment, – which is “Love your neighbor as though yourself” and there is no religious restriction to this law, which means if my neighbor is a Muslim, i must love him as myself, that is what the Scriptures says, and in this part of this world, one of the ways to show people that you really do love them is by eating their food and speaking their LAnguage.
Without this two in place, i really wanna acertain the fact that no one will believe that you truely love them and the Gospel of Christ is a goodnews not a bad nice, you only offer the ones you love a goodnews, so if we don;t demonstrate the love of christ by naturally loving them, then we can never rescue or win them to christ, so my answer to my friend that day was that – when a Muslim offers you a sallah food or meat whatsoever, for the sake of the love of Christ, you can accept it and thank the fellow.
However, we are not ignorant of the devices of the enemy less, it gain advantage of us, it is important for us to search through the spirit and that is why the bible says – “Test all spirit” don’t just take the food and eat just like that,
Let God help you make the right decision through the help of the holyspirit, I have eaten many sllah food and meat countless time, both while am so very small and my neighbor use to be Muslims and I have n choice than to eat it when they bring it to my parents and also when i have my choices at my disposal now to determine maybe i eat it or not, The bible makes it clear that what enters through the mouth of a man defiles him not!
So what you are eating does not defile it, and had it been they aren’t christian and muslms and they are just normal person withh a god or saviour and it happens to be your friends and out of love he/she offers you such a meal woulnd’t yu eat it?
Even the Lord Jesus ate so many times wiwth the sinners and it doesn’t affect his mission but in cases whereby your spirit is against it, you can accept it with love from such a fellow and refuse to eat, but accept it so that you can show the love of christ, but follow the leading of your inner man (spirit) t0 decide whether to eat it or not.
Many times when we are doing our christmas, in love we exchange our food with the muslims around and they are always excited to receive it and eat it, during the sallah too they do bring their own food to my family and at times we eat but some times i will tell my people, am not feeling like eating this thing’ so we just dispose them.
I was previlege to login into my facebook account yesterday and i found out this is the same isue that as been in vogue with my friends and from their updates I got some nice points for you guys to read;
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