Proverbs 24:13-14 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
I have been speaking for a couple of days about self-control. Self-control is a very broad subject, but I have mostly spoken about it in relation to eating. Most people that I know can tend to over indulge when they eat sweets. I for one have more than just A "sweet tooth," for I have MANY sweet teeth.
Sweets (sugars in general) are addressed as a subject in the Bible. You will find numerous texts in Proverbs that speak about honey. "The drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste." We even find in our text today a command to "eat honey." Why? Because "it is good," and "it is sweet." But the sweetness of honey is not meant to end with our taste buds. They are meant to point us away from the chocolate chip cookie, to the wisdom of God, which is Jesus Christ. "Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1 Corinthians 1:24)
God has given us many kinds of sweet food and beverages to enjoy. These things are good. But like all things that are good, there can be a wrong use of a good thing, which results in it becoming a sinful thing. We as humans have been stained by sin from the fall of mankind in the garden. We may not be as sinful as we could possibly be, but all of our faculties have been tainted by one degree or another by it. Candy, deserts, and soda pop are good in and of themselves. But we are prone to covet, and over indulge in that which is good, and in turn, we sin.
These things are pointers. Pointers to the sweetest gift that God has ever given to mankind. His beloved Son...
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