Sin Tastes Like Sugar (Proverbs 14:14)

It is a never ending battle for the parent of a child to get that child to eat food that is good and nutritious. Too much sugar leads to a physical crash, then the child needs to be filled again. However, with nutritious meals, those times of filling are further apart. In a good meal, a child gets what he needs to make it through the day. The same can be said for the child of God. He can either choose to fill himself up with the things of God or the things of the flesh. We all know that the things of the flesh are like that sugar. There will come a crash and we will need to be filled again. But the Lord so much more satisfying.

"The backslider in heart [from God and God-fearing] shall be filled with [the fruit of] his own way, and the good man shall be satisfied from himself [with the holy thoughts and actions which his heart prompts, and in which he delights]." Proverbs 14:14, Amplified

Everyone in this world needs some form of nourishment. That nourishment is either going to come from the world or from the Lord.

Notice, though, that the beginning of the verse does not speak of the sinner, but rather the backslider. This is the one who has tasted the sweetness of God and has gone back to the world to find satisfaction. The backslider is trying to recreate the sam feelings of satisfaction that he had with the Lord without the rules and regulations and responsibility that go along with it. The moment of filling oneself with whatever is not of God causes one to forget about the pain of leaving the true God. But when that sugar rush ends, when that crash comes (and it will) what then? Keep running away? Keep trying to fill emptiness with emptiness?

Not so, the man of God knows that the true satisfaction that he needs is found in only the Lord. When he has filled himself with the Lord, he understands that there is not a set of rules and regulations. No relationship can survive that. It is not that the Lord is holding us back from sin. when we are in love with Him and He is our one and only, then we have the freedom not to sin. The backslider has no other option in this life than to fill himself up with something else or run back to the Lord.

Remember Christian, we are always moving. It will either be forward in the Lord or backsliding. There is never a moment that we can just stay in one place. Press on, fight the good fight.