Unavoidable Defects

Unavoidable Defects

That’s the term the FDA uses to refer to the amount of contamination allowed in our food.

For example, here are some of the allowances:

30 fly eggs per one hundred grams of pizza sauce.

60 insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate and/or 1 rodent hair.

30 insect fragments and/or 1 rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter.

I’m not making this up! The FDA admits that our food will never be totally pure, so we allow a certain amount of defect.

There are all kinds of ways to apply this disturbing knowledge, but let’s do this.

Let’s make it personal and humbly confess we are all defective. Here’s the good news: God loves us anyway, and through a relationship with Jesus (who had no defects), redeems us, saves us, and sees us also as having no defects. Why? Because he loves us.

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Peter 1:18,19)

Do you believe that? Have you told God how much you love him?