The great poet William Robinson stated, “A taste of honey is worse than none at all.” This implies that only having a little bit of something good is more distressing than not having good at all. This goes to the heart of our relationship with God. The great things that can be accomplished by having a complete reliance on the commands and instructions of God are better than trying to patchwork the world and the Word. 2 Peter 2:21 states, “For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.” The next verse compares the habit of dogs, sows and people to return to the waste produced from their consumption of things in the world. Applied knowledge of the things that God teaches in the Word will help us avoid returning to the wasteful things that we have consumed because we will know that they will never be good for our long term spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical health.