Daily Devotion

March 28, 2006

Psa 119:103 KJV  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

The Word is varied.  Some Word consists of promises and encouragement; some consist of corrections and warnings.  Some are doctrinal, and yet others are threatening.  Are they all sweet?

Certainly the Word of promise and of encouragement is sweet, but what about the Word of warning, threatening and of correction?  

I was talking with a young man today to whom I had to point out certain things.  He had a hard not taking offense at what I was saying to him, so the words that were supposed to be a blessing and an edification, “sweetness” to him, became a negative experience.  I had to tell him that it was his choice, up to his spiritual maturity to take good advice as a blessing, a tool for growth, or to chafe against it, in which case, the same word will become to him more like bitter herbs than sweetness.

May God teach us to receive His Words, all of His Words as sweetness to our soul.  The Word of encouragement for growth, the Word of warning for safety, the Word of threatening as the rod of a loving father, and the Word of doctrine as the teachings of a faithful mother.  Help us thus to really live in the land of “milk and honey” (Ex 3:8; 1 Pet 2:2).

(Rom 15:4 KJV) For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Patrick Lumbroso
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