How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Ps. 119:103)
Expanded Passage: Psalm 119:103
Our granddaughter, when she was about two years old, was enjoying ice cream while sitting on her mother’s lap. Her grandmother invited her over to sample her ice cream. Once she had taken a bite of what she later called “orange apple,” she stayed firmly planted on her grandmother’s lap. The taste of the “orange apple” was too sweet to abandon.
The Word is variously self-described as a lamp to our feet, a light on our path, sharper than a two-edged sword, eternal and living, the Word of truth, the Word of life, and here, as sweeter than honey.
We often hear of people who have developed an acquired taste for some food item. The term suggests that repeated consumption makes the food item increasingly more pleasant and desirable. Both the beginning reader and the seasoned reader of the Bible will likewise find an ever-increasing taste for the Word as it becomes “sweeter than honey.”
A Bible teacher at a conference I attended told us that he had read the six chapters of Ephesians some 300 times and found something new there every journey he took through the epistle. Instead of becoming boring or redundant, the taste grew sweeter with every bite.
Return to the Word and experience its sweetness.
HC Wilson is general superintendent emeritus of The Wesleyan Church. He and his wife, Debby, reside in New Brunswick, Canada.
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