Thursday, July 6, 2017

Full

Proverbs 27:7New Living Translation (NLT)
A person who is full refuses honey,
    but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.
 
I can remember being young and expecting marriage, but I was not hungry for it.  Then I can remember compatriots who were so hungry for the ring, that you could have dressed up a scarecrow and stuck him at the end of a church aisle for a groom.  It was sad to see young women like that.  I don't think that she knew how hungry she was.  She was so hungry that she married stale bread and ate like a queen.  I guess no one ever told her that queens don't feast on stale bread.  That is hungry at it's best.  Then there is full.  There are some people who have life so presented on a platter that they never experience hunger.  They despise a well cooked chicken, a soft bed, a beautiful mate or the air that they breathe.  They come to despise good things because they have never had to deal with the poverty of not having.  Sweet water becomes boring when you have never had bitter.  For this cause, sometimes, I pray that God allows a bit of hardness in a life.  It will help give a healthy perspective on things.  A bit of hunger does well to the appetite.

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