The Sweetness Of Sin

Sin is so sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly

Sin unrepented of, brings final damnation.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Sin disquiets the peace of the soul. "But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud." "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked." Isaiah 57:20-21. Whatever defiles, disturbs. As poison corrupts the blood—so sin corrupts the soul. Sin breeds a trembling at the heart; it creates fears, and there is "torment in fear." Sin makes sad convulsions in the conscience. Judas was so terrified with guilt and horror, that he hanged himself to quiet his conscience. In order to ease his conscience—he threw himself into Hell.

Now sin appeals to our selfish nature, and promises personal gratification at the expense of righteousness.

Finally, unless we the Christians make sin taste bitter to us, Christ will not be sweet. The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

May Almighty God give us the power to overcome sin.