Sometimes the water I drink tastes bitter. Well, maybe not bitter, but at least it tastes bad to me.

Most times that happens, it’s because of something in the water. Once in a while, though, the taste is in my mouth, not in the water. Someone else drinking the water says it tastes fine.

Well, I just drank some bitter-tasting water from Proverbs 25:

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink” (21).

But the problem isn’t with the water here, it’s with me.

I am willing to do good to my adversaries, even meeting their needs when I am able, even if doing so doesn’t “taste good” to me.

And may God help me clean out of my soul whatever causes me to think that water tastes bitter.

Soon it will be 26 years since our wedding day.

Today is the wedding day of our high school teacher and his new bride.

And in three months or so, our oldest son plans to marry his beloved betrothed.

At our request, Dad preached our wedding sermon, using this passage which we chose:

“Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches” (Proverbs 24:3,4).

If only I had always panted (like a super thirsty hart) after wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of God and His Word.

But the past is passed.

If only now I will pant more and more after Him and His wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.