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Eating Everything on Your Plate

“If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.” Proverbs 25:16

We have a tendency to overindulge. It’s systemic in our culture. Consider the portion size at your favorite restaurant. We call it value – ironic, isn’t that? – and eat (or drink, or spend, or wear, or use) it all because it’s there. And besides, to not do it would be wasteful, wouldn’t it? After all I paid for it.

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An Eye For An Eye?

Proverbs 24:29 challenges us: “Do not say, ‘I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.'”

It ought to be common sense, but if we’re honest with ourselves, we often want an eye for an eye.