What’s Your Honey? Guarding the Heart from Idols (Proverbs 25:16)
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Proverbs 25:16
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,
lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.
Even honey has a limit. Sweetness, when swallowed without restraint, turns sour. That’s Solomon’s warning: even the good gifts of God — when overindulged — can make the soul sick.
This verse is more than a dietary tip. It’s a divine diagnostic. A call to contentment. A checkup for the heart’s hungers.
John Calvin said the human heart is an idol-making factory. And he was right — we turn good things into god things faster than honey melts on the tongue. Our affections are sticky. Our hearts are quick to bow. We don’t just enjoy the gift — we enthrone it.
So what’s your honey?
What delight have you begun to worship?
Is it a person — a spouse, perhaps, or the dream of one?
Is it power? Control? Praise?
What sweet thing has inched too close to the throne of your heart?
The Lord does not begrudge us joy — He gives it! But He will not share His glory with a spoonful of honey.
Every gift must point us to the Giver, not replace Him.
Let’s pray.
