8/09/19 

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Our experiences in life are in main made up of our likes and dislikes.  In a time where a sweet tooth could only be satisfied with honey, the value of honey was far beyond our present appreciation of it.

But the writer of Proverbs realizing this, cautions against over-indulgence.  Even something so desirable as honey must be eaten with care.  Over-indulgence could bring harm to the eater.

So it is with everything in this world.  Only a believing relationship with Christ escapes this warning.  No one can believe too completely, be too devoted, spend too much energy, or love too completely the Holy Triune God.  There is no danger here.

By this devotion we cure our excessive appetites, direct our energy and encourage any lack of it, increase our faith to attempt great things, and increase our affection toward God in such a way that the well-being of our neighbor becomes primary with us.

A believer never fails because he loves Christ too much; but because he has found himself craving and indulging in a worldly honey to the excess.

Why is heaven desirable?  Because God is there.  cf Philippians 3:9-11.

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— ¹⁰ that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.