Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey:
so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Honey makes things sweeter until it doesn't. Honey has diminishing returns. There comes a point where more honey does not make sweeter, but intolerable. There is a sweetness that is more akin to sickness. Treacle is not extra sweet, it's too sweet.
Such is a man searching for his own glory. Seeking more glory does not more glorious one make. It is a man's glory to pursue his glory in proportion to its priority. God has told us how and where to seek glory and when man seeks glory anywhere else or with more tenacity than God commands, it ends, not in something more glorious, but in something horrendous.
Vainglory does not end in increased commendation, but in condemnation.
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