On the 30th of October, 2015, my colleagues and I went to a restaurant and bar to celebrate one of my bosses who was being sent forth. The atmosphere was electrifying, cool and we had a lot of fun. There were enough to eat and drink and every one was in high spirit. We sat at the same place but at different tables. In the cause of it, I heard a lady in another group asking, why is it that the things that are not healthy are sweet and the things that are healthy are bitter?
The statement caught my attention and I started pondering over it. I turned to a senior colleague and asked him the same question. He said that whatever is sweet in the mouth mayn’t be good for the body and whatever is bitter in the mouth is good for and builds the body. At that point in time, I thought about the sweet things people take every day like sugar, sugary soda and soft drinks, ice cream, chocolates, candies and the good and the harm they do to one’s body. The actual fact is that these things destroy the bodies faster than we enjoy them. . It then occurred to me that the question the lady asked was the truth.
The thought of it saturated my mind for some time and I decided to do a research and write up on it. I realized that most people enjoy sweet things and they can spend fortune getting them. I have lost 2 sets of teeth as a result of sugary things. Many have lost their lives, livers and their kidneys to sweet things. Some people may say that they do not take sugar but the truth is everyone takes sugar one way or the other through the food we eat that contain carbohydrate. However, some people are addicted to sugar, candies, soda or soft drinks and so on.
Sugar is good for the body but when the body cannot regulate or break it down, then it could result in something else. It can cause kidney disease, weight gain, insulin resistance, diabetes, overload the liver, liver failure, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, tooth decay, sexual health problems and addiction. People who consume the most sugar are by far the most likely to become overweight or obese. This applies to all age groups, people and status.
It also raises your cholesterol and gives you heart disease as well.
The rate of sicknesses and diseases is very high in our generation. One good reason for this is the excess intake of sugar. Sugar is very good for the body and it actually needs it to function properly, but we need to watch our intake of it. Some people may try as much as possible to limit their intake of sugar and to balance their intake of it by taking bitters. An average person does not want to take bitter things because they are bitter. Nobody likes the taste of bitter things but in the actual sense, it is as well as good for the body as sugar is to it. The markets worldwide are saturated with sugary things because they sell easily and most consumers only buy things that are sweet.
One of the things I know that is very bitter in life is the truth because when it comes to you, there is a tendency for you to resist it. Many people do not like to be told the truth because it is very bitter to them. People usually say that the truth is bitter but I will admit that the truth is bitter but also sweet. When it comes, it comes in a bitter form and in a way that you may not like but if you receive it and act on it instead of resisting it, it will become sweet to your body later on.
John 17:17 says, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth”.
The word of God is the truth that many people do not want to hear. Some are afraid of the authenticate word of God instead they want to hear the word that is only sweet to their ears that may destroy them later on. This reminds me of Isaiah 30:10 NCV which says, “They tell the seers, Stop seeing visions! They tell the prophets,
“Don’t tell us what is right. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies”.
Also, Proverbs 27:7 NCV says, “ When you are full, not even honey tastes good,
but when you are hungry, even something bitter tastes sweet”.
The above scripture is talks about people who have eaten and get full and a hungry person who can eat anything he sees. A person who has eaten to his satisfaction and fill loses his taste even for things that are sweet, while a hungry man eats anything he is presented with. However, I saw something unique in the scripture. The understanding and insight I got was that anybody who thinks he has known everything there is to the bible because he has studied it from cover to cover does not crave for more. At this point, any word that comes to you, you may not listen and hear it because you think you are full and have more than enough of God’s word. But anyone who is zealous and hungry for the word of God longs for it and practices what he hears. We should not get to the place in life where we think we have known all about the bible. A true Christian longs for the word of God and he does not get satisfied with what he knows about it and God. As a Christian who longs for the knowledge of God, any hard word (that is the bone and meat of God’s word) that comes to him will be sweet to him. So, your appetite for God’s word determines how you will perceive, receive and long for more. The word of God could be sweet, bitter and tasteless depending on your saturation level, hunger for and perception of it.
Revelation 10:8-10 KJV says: "And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter".
There are times the word comes and you get excited, jumping and encouraged (THE SWEET) and there are times it comes to you and it rebukes, corrects, pricks and breaks you (THE BITTER). However, whether it comes as THE SWEET or as THE BITTER, the most important is that it is the word of God which is THE TRUTH. Wilson Ileogben.
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