Sweet than honey



一席一果」——怒江边上的荔枝【滇西小哥】 - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSv6UgCkuTU

I was watching this youtube channel on this young girl from Yunnan who blogs about her life and cooking with seasonal vegetables and I was so excited about this vlog which showed her plucking lychee from the tree and cooking with it.

I shared with friends over a fancy dinner when we were talking about cooking methods and my friend laughed and said why don't you just to go NTUC to buy lychees since they are in season now.

This conversation got me thinking of 2 things

firstly someone who has never tasted the sweetness of real freshly harvested lychees will never understand what I mean.  The sweetness is something we will never get in the supermarkets of singapore cos we have to keep the fruit fresh enough to be sold while transporting. And someone who has never tasted freshly plucked lychees will think that that is the optimum of sweetness. Just as someone who has never experienced the sweetness of a real relationship with God. When we evangelise or even preach the gospel our words fail us. It requires a personal experience to convey it. The closest we can get is through our friendships and love for others that perhaps in some poor way we may be able to demostrate it.

secondly how easily we are satisfied and reluctant to put in the effort to get that sweetness. yes it may seem extreme to fly to china to pluck lychee from the tree but having gone frequently to more rural parts of the world and experience and taste things that require effort and not just something you can buy I would say the effort makes the food taste better. Last week I baked bread and while it didn't look that great, it tasted great.

Psalms 19:9b-10
The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous.
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;
They are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.

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