A glutton is a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously. It can also speak of a person who has a remarkable desire or capacity for something, like a glutton for work.
Brief Explanation:
Gluttony is not the same as a weight problem. Being overweight is a problem, a health problem especially in Western culture, but Gluttony is different. It is out of control eating or drinking, usually driven by greed, lust or deep emotional “hunger.” A glutton is out of control, and the issue again is not weight, but gaining control of the desire to continue to eat for secondary gain, or to meet a need that cannot be met. Finding the need, developing a strategy to meet the need in legitimate ways is the key, using sensitivity and care.
The Word of God:
Proverbs 23:1
“When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat, if you are man of great appetite.”
Proverbs 23:21
“For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.”
Matthew 11:19
“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say behold a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax-gathers and sinners! Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
1 Corinthians 10:7
“And do not be idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.’”
1 Corinthians 10:31
“Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
