My friend Matt Merker and I were walking to lunch a couple hours ago and were thinking about the Jonathan Edwards' distinction between the knowledge of honey and the taste of honey, which he uses to help us understand the sweetness of knowing Christ.

But we were thinking about the opposite fact: why is it that we have so little sense for the bitterness of sin?

So we came up with seventeen ideas for how to grow in a godly sense for the bitterness of sin--that we might despise, fight, and flee sin:

1. Spend more time trying to taste what is sweet--Christ. I.e. worship.
2. Fight sin (as you fight it, you'll discover how strong and horrible it is).
3. Pray: ask God to increase your sense of its bitterness; ask God for more brokenness.
4. Meditate on the outcome of sin and particular sins.
5. Avail yourself of the public teaching of the word.
6. Avail yourself of the testimonies of other Christians concerning the ruinous nature of sin in their lives.
7. Help other fight sin--own and feel their struggles with them.
8. Spend more time with non-Christians and consider their hopes and hurts.
9. Read the daily news.
10. Have at least a passing awareness of your own culture and how the fall has manifested itself in your context (through media, legislation, etc.)
11. Confess your own sins daily.
12. For pastors: Plan and execute corporate prayers of confession.
13. For pastors: Make sure at least some of Sunday's music is of the minor key variety, i.e. confesses and grieves sin. For example: Ah, Holy Jesus.
14. Spend time caring for the poor, needy, and victims of injustice.
15. Spend time reading and meditating on the Old Testament--both individual passages as well as the storyline of the whole thing.
16. Watch this video.
17. Meditate often on what this video, like a shadow, points toward.

That, anyhow, is what we came up with over the first 20 minutes of lunch. Do you have anything to add?