day no. 16,059: eating death rather than starving to it

“Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” -- C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns

Spiritual nature considers bitterness better than barrenness.

Proverbs 27:7

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;

but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

An hungry soul will not starve to death.

Forbid it refreshment and it will drink venom.

Refuse it nourishment and it will devour disease.

A malcontent soul would rather eat death than starve.

It prefers to pick the place of its own martyrdom and die justified in its own eyes than to receive the call to die and by justified in God's.