"Believer! there was a delightful promise which you had yesterday; and this morning when you turned to the Bible the promise was not sweet. Do you know why? Do you think the promise had changed? Ah, no!
You changed; that is where the matter lies. You had been eating some of the grapes of Sodom, and your mouth was thereby put out of taste, and you could not detect the sweetness. But there was the same honey there, depend upon it, the same preciousness." (
Charles Spurgeon)
This quote reminds me of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. After Edmund eats the bad, magical Turkish delight given to him by the witch he doesn't enjoy the good food at the beavers' house. The narrator comments to the effect that nothing spoils the taste of good ordinary food like the memory of bad magic food. A profound comment when one comes to think about it. One thinks of things like Internet p--- and how that has ruined marriages.
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