Take away from before you that plate of delicious food.  Though it sustains for a moment it is rotten and useless.  You have been taught to teach your tongue.  But your tongue has been taught in error.

Place before you the things you consider bitter.  Force your tongue to learn.  In time you will consider what was before delicious as if it is rotten and putrid.

The taste of delicacies in this world of sin is an abomination at the Lord’s table.  From childhood we are taught, from without and within, to enjoy this banquet of corruption and rebellion.  Pleasure is sweet and the aroma captivates the soul.  But this food is rancid it will make you horribly sick;  even unto death.

What is bitter to the flesh is a delicacy of God.  The one who trains himself to enjoy what is good is wise.  There is a banquet table being prepared from which the pleasure seekers will revolt.  Only those who love Him will attend.  And their joy will never end.

By His Grace

10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.[b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

By His Grace

It is good to sit quietly by the water’s edge. 

Listen to the onslaught of peaceful sounds.

In it are traceable things to ponder.

For the beautiful voice of Jesus resounds.

His voice is like that of many rivers;

Speaking pictures, concepts and truth.

Not a moment is silent as we sit here and ponder.

His beauty is Fire diverse.

By His Grace