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18th September 2024
WednesdayReflection
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'LET GOD BE TRUE' offers
The Church of Greenville
" Never eat more honey than
you need; too much may make you vomit."
Proverbs 25:16
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Moderation in all things.
Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
Extreme use of anything is abuse.
God and Solomon want you to maximize the use of things in life by not overusing any of them.
This is an important rule of wisdom and success for your life.
God created honey as a sweet gift for taste, and it is good for your body.
Yet too much can overwhelm your senses and make you sick.
When you find something pleasant, use it prudently for its intended purpose, lest it be a snare to your soul, or you end up hating it.
Every man's honey is different.
What is sweet to your taste but tempts you to overindulge in it?
What is your honey?
It is your duty to identify those pleasures that captivate you the most and be temperate with them (I Cor 9:25).
Honey is good and pleasant (Pr 16:24; 24:13).
Honey is not forbidden; it is God's gift. Be thankful for it.
But too much is not good (Pr 25:27).
How can something so good make you vomit?
By proving that excess is bad!
Excess, which is too much, shows good things have limited uses.
Use them until sufficient, to their intended purpose, and not beyond.
This generation loves excess.
God's gifts of food and drink have been abused to destroy souls.
Gluttony and drunkenness overcharge men's stomachs and hearts (Lu 21:34).
The wisdom here is mainly moral and spiritual, yet it also contains nutritional advice.
Honey and other simple or refined carbohydrates are a principal cause of obesity and other maladies affecting health.
When prosperity supplies an endless variety and amount of sugars and carbohydrates, an excessive society can gorge to a diabetic epidemic!
Consider other pleasant gifts of God to grasp the lesson.
God gave bread to make hearts strong (Ps 104:15),
but overeating bread, and other grain products destroys the heart.
God gave wine to make hearts glad (Ps 104:15),
but drunkenness is a sin of excess that can cause horrible heartache (Eph 5:18)
Solomon commended eating and drinking for strength, rather than pleasure.
There is pleasure in eating, but it cannot dominate.
The all-you-can-eat buffets may be a nice blessing for variety, but they are a curse for the man given to appetite.
You should eat to satisfy hunger and promote health.
Can you believe, "Enough is as good as a feast"?
Excessive indulgence in any pleasure dulls the appetite and enjoyment of that thing, so that you need greater and greater amounts to give you the original pleasure.
The more fine food you eat, the less you enjoy that special dinner out.
The more you travel for business, the less you enjoy the getaway with your wife.
It is a simple lesson of experience that too much of anything steals much of its pleasure (Pr 27:7).
Christian reader, what is your honey?
In moderation it is good, but in excess it is sinful?
Is it eating, family, drinking, working, marriage, hobbies, exercise, sex, or something else?
What is it?
You will have the greatest temptations to be intemperate with those things that are sweet and pleasant to you.
You must identify these weights or sins, so you can lay them aside to successfully run your race (Heb 12:1-4).
There is honey for the Christian that has no limit, and it is free, and you may delight in its fatness (Is 55:1-5)!
It is the wonderful facts of the gospel.
Lady wisdom also offers bread, wine, and a furnished table (Pr 9:1-5),
and there you will not be sick or disappointed by eating as much as you can.
Fill yourself today with both the gospel and wisdom.
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'LET GOD BE TRUE'
The Church of Greenville
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The church of Jesus Christ is where God dwells on earth (I Cor 3:16; Eph 2:22).
It is not a building. It is a congregation, or formal group, of His baptized children who have united in mutual faith around His Son Jesus Christ to worship in spirit and in truth and to help one another live godly lives until He comes.
It assembles to sing, pray, hear preaching, observe the Lord's Supper, and have loving fellowship.
Most professing Christians today have only a form of godliness without the power of changed lives, and they love pleasure more than God.
Though information and learning are increasing geometrically, truth and godliness are almost extinct.
The time has come that men will not endure sound doctrine.
Paul's cure is simple - PREACH THE WORD.
For the only protection from this present danger is the bold declaration of the God-inspired Scriptures.
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