
It is a beautiful combination, which we should do well to emulate.
Some  eat and drink, and do not behold God. - They are taken up with the delights of  sense. Their one cry, as the children of this world, is, What shall we eat, what  shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed? But the God in whose hand  their breath is and whose are all their ways, they do not glorify. Let us  beware; it was of Christian professors that the Apostles said, Their god is  their belly.
Some behold God, and do not eat and drink. - They look on  God with such awful fear that they isolate Him from the common duties of life.  They draw a strict line between the sacred and secular, between Sunday and  weekday, between God's and their own. This divorce between religion and daily  life is fatal to true religion, which was meant to be the bond between the  commonest details of life and the service of God.
Some behold God, and  eat and drink. - They turn from the commonest avocations to look up into His  face. They glorify God in their body as well as in their spirit. They obey the  apostle's injunction, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do,  do all to the glory of God." Oh for the grace to be able to combine the vision  of God with every common incident - to live always beneath His eye in the  unrestrained gladness of little children in their Father's  presence!
Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He  doth not bear;
Never a sorrow that He doth not share - 
Moment by moment  I'm under His care.