Sunday 3 Sep 2017

September 3: Proverbs 25:16

Key Verse: Proverbs 25:16
If you find honey, eat just enough— too much of it, and you will vomit.

Devotion:
I'm sure one thing we all face is eating too much food at some stage or another. Too much of a good thing can actually end up being bad for you, never mind the excess weight we may find being added around our waists. Our most common mistake is to eat too much of those things which are the sweetest tasting – too much sugar, chocolate and other sweets in general. There are so many physical reasons why we should not eat too much of those things, never mind the spiritual weakness we are giving in to.

Once we start to accept the excesses into our lives, we continue to break down our resistance to over-consuming in these areas. Once we give in, we find consuming too much far too easy and often end up feeling bloated or even ill from eating excessive quantities of those foods. Our bodies are simply not built to handle excessive quantities of these foodstuffs – yet we still give in because of the taste.

Imagine now, if you will, something we do not eat, but do instead. Imagine we find something which is very good to do once or twice, but because we have no longer got a will to resist those temptations, we give in to the physical as well. Suddenly we find our physical beings are being put in danger because of our weakness against those temptations. Once we found they were good, but now we find they may even be damaging our health. We have let the pleasures of our senses overcome us to the extent where what used to be pleasurable may no longer be so.

Greed and lust are two things we will always find in our way when we face up to the pleasures of our senses. We always want more than we can or should have; and that always leads to some downfall from our side! Learning to live within our needs instead of our wants is a very important part of learning to be more like Christ...

Points to Ponder:
What do you always give in to?

Have you tried asking Christ for help in avoiding your weakest temptations?