{"id":8878,"date":"2023-09-05T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedhousepublishing.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:25:25","slug":"once-youve-had-a-taste-of-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedhousepublishing.com\/once-youve-had-a-taste-of-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Once you’ve had a taste of honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mary Garner<\/p>

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How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

Psalm 119:103.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

God’s love is sweeter than honey. What a beautiful phrase that depicts the sweetness and beauty of God’s love for us!! It wasn’t hard for me to write this post because I have seen God’s love and felt the touch of His hand in my life. I can say truthfully as I have grown in my walk with the Lord that His love truly is sweeter than honey, but let’s try to put this in modern day terms that will help everyone understand how David (the Psalmist who wrote this passage) was feeling about his Lord. As we think about the time this was written, honey was the sweetest tasting food available. <\/p>

Once you had a taste of honey, it filled your senses with so much pleasure.<\/strong> David was saying that the words God spoke to him were sweeter and more enjoyable than the sweetest tasting food he had ever known. He was saying that God’s fellowship with him was more beautiful and sweeter than anything this world could ever offer. He was the king, and we understand from reading the Bible that David had so much, and God blessed him with many worldly gifts, and despite all of the money and land and area that he ruled . . . he proclaimed that his relationship with God was better than all of those things. <\/p>

So, I look at my own life for a moment and wonder how precious my relationship with God is. His hand has held me when the raging waters of grief and sorrow have swept over my head in an attempt to drown me. <\/strong><\/p>

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His strength has flowed through me when there was not a single ounce of my own strength left and no reason to keep living. His banner over me was always love even in the darkest nights where the voices and doubts in my head tried to win as they declared me a hopeless and unlovable person. When the fires of trials and afflictions raged all around me, He stood with me in the fire as He promised there was a purpose and I would come forth as gold when the fire went out.<\/strong> His peace filled me when my life was turned upside down and all that I saw for my life disappeared. When worldly love failed, His love prevailed and remained sure and steadfast.<\/p>