Proverbs 27:7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
"The full soul loatheth" (even that luscious thing) "an honeycomb." No true preaching will go down with him who is full of himself, full of his own importance. Unless there shall be many of the flowers of rhetoric in the discourse, he will not listen to sound doctrine. "But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." Happy hunger is it when the soul hungereth and thirsteth after righteousness. Then there are no hyper-critical observations about the minister’s delivery, and no carping at words and phrases. It is spiritual food that the soul seeks, and if it can get that, though it may not be to its taste in every respect, there will be a sweetness in it that will make it like a honeycomb.
Proverbs 27:7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
"The full soul loatheth" (even that luscious thing) "an honeycomb." No true preaching will go down with him who is full of himself, full of his own importance. Unless there shall be many of the flowers of rhetoric in the discourse, he will not listen to sound doctrine. "But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet." Happy hunger is it when the soul hungereth and thirsteth after righteousness. Then there are no hyper-critical observations about the minister’s delivery, and no carping at words and phrases. It is spiritual food that the soul seeks, and if it can get that, though it may not be to its taste in every respect, there will be a sweetness in it that will make it like a honeycomb.