Some like bitter chocolate, and others prefer sweet. The ancient Mayans, in Central America, loved to drink chocolate, and added chili to give it more flavor. They liked this "bitter water," as they called it. Many years later, it was brought to Spain, but the Spaniards preferred sweet chocolate. Then, they added sugar and honey to counteract the natural bitter taste.
Like chocolate, the days can be bitter or sweet. A seventeenth-century French monk, named Brother Lorenzo, wrote: If we knew how much he loves us [God], we would always be willing to receive sweetness and bitterness [...] equally from his hand. To accept the sweet and the bitter equally? How difficult! What are you talking about? The key is in the character of God. The psalmist said: You are good, and a benefactor (Psalm 119: 68).
The Mayans also valued bitter chocolate for its medicinal and healing properties. The bitter days also have their value. They reveal our weaknesses and help us to depend more on God. As the psalmist wrote: It is good for me to have been humiliated, so that you may learn your statutes (verse 71). Sure of the goodness of God, let us embrace life today, and let us say: You have done well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word (v. 65).
Read: Psalm 119: 65-72
God is good.
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