The Daily Meditation

16 If thou have found honey, eat that is sufficient
for thee, lest thou be overfull, and vomit it.
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so to search
their own glory, is not glory.
28 A man that refraineth not his appetite, is like
a city which is broken down and without walls.

Proverbs 1:15
Proverbs 16:22
Proverbs 27:2
Luke 14:11
Acts 5:38
1 Peter 3:10

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Editor’s Thought - When first reading the above study scriptures today, I could sense the connection but could not immediately identify how they were so related. I went to Strong’s Concordance and therein I found how the three complimented each other.

First it must be made of note, that in the Geneva translation the word “appetite is used, as opposed to the KJV that uses the word “spirit”

So, we find that appetite is defined by Strong’s as, by implication to seek greedily, and we later find that spirit (in the Hebrew), is translated as a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger.

So the connection is this: A person that seeks glory, for the express goal of self exaltation, is like one that overeats and later regrets it and comes to grief. One should humble oneself, in the pursuit of things, that is to say, not to overdo in any aspect of life. Let those who see you, think well of you by your actions as in relationship with God.