Daily Affirmations - Day 3 - A Word in Season - Sweeter Than Honey
Day 3: Sweeter than honey
How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Psalm 119:103)
How sweet for those whose thoughts dwell on You. How life-giving is Your holy Word!
To speak with You is more soothing than anointing with oil, sweeter than the honeycomb.
To pray to You lifts the spirit and refreshes the soul.
Where You are not, there is only emptiness; hearts are smitten with sadness; nature, and life itself, become sorrowful.
Where You are, the soul is filled with abundance, and its song resounds like a torrent of life: Alleluia!
Adapted from: Prayer from www.acollectionofprayers.com
Used with permission.
The humble bee, though small and silent, teaches profound lessons to the soul that has eyes to see the handiwork of God. Day after day, she leaves her hive in search of nectar, flitting from flower to flower. Each blossom is different... And yet, when her work is done, and the nectar has been brought back, processed, and perfected, the result is always the same sweet, golden honey.
By a special God-given instinct, bees... visit every kind of bloom, drawing nectar from all the beauties of the garden. And from this wide variety, they concoct a sweetness altogether unsurpassed.
So it is with our blessed Lord Jesus Christ. He is the rare confection of all divine perfections. In Him, all excellencies compounded and commingled in divine harmony. He is the meeting of all sweetnesses, to make one perfect sweet. In Him are mercy and truth, majesty and meekness, justice and grace, glory and humility. each a full perfection, yet all blended without contradiction in the matchless Person of the Son of God.
What a picture this is of the providence and grace of God in our own lives! The Lord gathers from every event joy and sorrow, comfort and affliction, gain and loss, and by the secret working of His Spirit produces the fruit of righteousness in His redeemed children.
Even our bitter trials are made to serve His purpose. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace (Hebrews 12:11).
Like the bee, we are not the authors of the sweetness, but vessels through which God brings it forth. And just as bees create one consistent honey from many diverse flowers, so the Scriptures, though written by many hands over many centuries, are a perfect unity.
The Bible is a divine harmony... one message. Salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Its truth is consistent, its promises are sure, and its taste is sweeter than honey to the soul that loves Him.
Let us then be like the bee, industrious, trusting, and content. And let us feed daily on His word, that we may be nourished with that which is eternally sweet.
Let us keep our eyes on Jesus, knowing that in Him all the beauties and excellencies of God are gathered and revealed. Jesus is the sweetest, fullest, richest, freest, and most inexhaustible fountain of delight that ever sprang up for sinful man.
~ C.H. Spurgeon, Sweeter Than Honey (slightly edited).
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