Sugar Cane

by Ken Beer
(Brisbane Qld Australia)

The common cane from many warm & wet countries around the tropics produces the sticky sweet stuff inside the peeled out shell & is usually sent to big mills to be cut processed then sold as either brown ,raw, caster or table sugar; they can make other sticky stuff like Molasses, and Treacle and Golden Syrup.
For the back yard garden grower we can produce it & cut it up & kids can still chew on it & enjoy its energy producing forula.
However a warning needs to be given. People down through the years have soaked and stored it made all sorts of intoxicating drinks from it like Rum.In the early of Australia's Coloniy development cash was in short supply and home made rum became such good business that traders and the like bartered with, often destroying many otherwise strong men.
It reminds us of early Jews who were separated from others & never to touch fermented grape juice because it was known to effect people's personilty. They were called Nazarites. Samson was one who made his vows but in moral life was a loser and the sky fell in on him!
The Psalmist says in the Bible "O taste and see that the Lord is good", and we can do that, and if we love the Lord because He wants us to live pure good lives we may well make a vow of Abstinence like is practised in Salvation Army childrens groups around the world.
God really does want us to know our body is the Temple of the living God, & that it has become the place where the Holy Spirit can indwell us if only we will let Him. Will you?