Eye Candy

Ladies and Gentlemen: In this corner weighing in at 23 calories, is the Hershey’s ‘Kiss’ made of creamy milk chocolate. In the other corner, weighing in at 81 calories, is Godiva’s ‘Mélange’ made of mandarin mocha double chocolate with a liquid raspberry center, drizzled on top with white almond coconut marzipan and delicately enrobed with pralines. Delicious, delicious and decisions, decisions? What to do? At gift time, one is wished for, and one is given. One costs $2 a pound; and one costs $40 a pound! Is the product worth it? It depends upon your tastes, and if you have an orchard of money trees. Yes, candy is good food. And a differentiation is made in everything. One is good, one is savored. One comes in a simple silver wrapper; one comes in a box, and sometimes with a diamond ring. Reminds me of the Bible. One sometimes just reads it, and one reads, studies, and applies it. Again, one is good, the other is savored. It’s your choice. You want taste or satisfaction? Where do your tastes lie? Does it long for the rich rewarding and fulfillment of the Word? We must know what our souls hunger for. Jesus says, “Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man gives you.” John 6:27 Jesus gets more detailed, “I am the bread of life, he who comes to me will never go hungry.” John 6:35 Regardless, of which candy we choose there is nothing sweeter than the words of Jesus. Palms 119:103 says, “How sweet are your words to my taste.” German researchers have discovered that eating a small amount of dark chocolate (about 1 square of a bar) daily can lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke by a whopping 39%. The antioxidants in cocoa are the magic ingredients. Prophet researchers have discovered by ingesting the Bible daily we can not only eliminate heart attacks and strokes but, we will be given a whole new body. There is eye candy out there, but let’s choose substance and everlasting nutrition over sweet advertisements.