BitterSweet

Proverbs 27:7 "The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet."

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I was thinking about this a little this week, but this verse is a good reminder just to myself that our perspective on what is going on in our lives can have a big impact in both how much we enjoy it and also how well we respond to it. In this Proverb it says "The full soul loathes a honeycomb". This is quite interesting. Honey is really sweet, so why wouldn't someone want it? They are, "full", the proverb tells us. I think everyone gets like this sometimes. God gives us so many good things, but then, being content with the things, we look at all of the good things that God blesses us with and say to Him "God, I think I need something more than this. I want something sweeter." But they don't really need anything sweeter, because it is not the quality of the honey which is the problem, but the appetite of the person who is receiving it. "To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." This person is the complete opposite. It's like he gets this massive hunk of rotting wormwood, takes a big hunk out of it and goes, "MAN! WOAH! I get to eat THIS???!!!! God You are so very good to me." He eats this bitter nasty thing and it tastes sweet, because He is hungry for anything that God gives to Him. Because what may look like Wormwood on the outside may actually be honey within.

This is how we should always be, I think. Hungry--for God.

I know not who may read, but it gladdens me to write for Christ.