Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics an anonymous praise group singing an arrangement of Psalm 19, entitled Sweeter Than Honey … poignantly singing from a song of King David of how sweet and pure is the word of God.
God's word ... so, so sweet !!!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Proverbs 16:23-24 [NLT] ... 23 From a wise mind comes wise speech; the words of the wise are persuasive. 24 Kind words are like honey — sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.
… And the wisdom we get from God’s word is the sweetest we can taste.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Proverbs 16:1-2, 21-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s wisdom, thru His word, is sweeter than honey.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 19:7-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of the sweetness and power of God’s truth for the life of the believer.
Reference Passage : … Psalm 119:103 [NLT] … 103 How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.
… The Psalmist sings of how sweet God’s truth was to his taste and his life.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah 55:11 [NLT] … 11 It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
… God thru the Prophet, Isaiah, promises the fruitfulness we can expect when we take in and share God’s word.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 4:29 [NLT] … 29 Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.
… God thru Paul, showing us how we should use our words … as He uses His.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Patricia Raybon, shows how the power of the words we use can shape the emotional reception of those who hear what we say. … The ODB author wrote: His topic was racial tension. Yet the speaker remained calm and collected. Standing on stage before a large audience, he spoke boldly—but with grace, humility, kindness, and even humor. Soon the tense audience visibly relaxed, laughing along with the speaker about the dilemma they all faced: how to resolve their hot issue, but cool down their feelings and words. Yes, how to tackle a sour topic with sweet grace.
Hey, fellow Christian, … did either of your parents every say to you, … ”If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” … Well that was my mother’s repeated exhortation for me when I was growing up. And it was about the same from the Apostle Paul to fellow Christians in Eph. 4:29, warning them (and us) to avoid using corrupted, sinful, communications; but rather saying only those things which convey the sweetness of God’s love and grace to others.
Decades ago, when I was saved from a life of angry atheism, God’s word seemed at first like a sour ball to me. But a mentor helped me to take in God’s truth thru His word and savor its sweetness [see Prov. 16:24]. And over the years, as in the Psalms and Scriptures above, God’s word became sweeter and sweeter to me, … to the point I would say that I’ve become addicted to its sweetness, … here every morning, starting each day with my dose of sweet, Godly wisdom.
And I do pray that my readers here come back each morning - or at least regularly - to take in the sweetness of God’s truth as the psalmists sang about it in Ps. 19 and 119. My friend, it will become sweeter than honey for you, … as it has for me.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for another taste of Your sweetness, dripping from the honeycomb of Your word this morning.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to sample the sweetness of God’s truth today … and tomorrow!! Amen
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