Droppings of the honeycomb

Psalm 119: [103] How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
[104] Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

[105] Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Proverbs 16: 23-24: [23] The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. [24] Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

“…In the nineteenth Psalm we are told that the Word of God is ‘sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.’ The droppings of the honeycomb is the purest honey; and there is a thought also that the comb is filled to overflowing so that drops of pure honey hang from it; not continually dropping, but hanging there ready to drop at the proper time. Not only is the pure sweetness of honey under our tongue, but milk is found there, too.

“…The honey is sweet, nourishing and soothing; the milk represents nourishment and edification. It is as we discern and feed upon the sincere milk of the Word, that the Word is stored away in our hearts and is found under our tongues."

When Moses describes to Israel about what they’re to do when they enter into the "land that floweth with milk and honey," he tells them that when the king ‘sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

[19] And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them.’

“If you want God’s Word, the truth of who you are in Jesus Christ, the life of Christ, to work in you, you need to get into READING. If you want who God has made you—He called Israel to be somebody and if that was to work in them, they had to get those w-o-r-d-s, read them all the days of their life so those words would work in them," explains Richard Jordan. 

“You don’t operate simply on your memory. You don’t operate on what you heard a teacher or preacher say. You sit and read the words yourself.

“When Moses dies and Joshua takes his place of leadership, God advises, ‘Be strong and of good courage.’ He says in Joshua 1:8, ‘This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.’

“You see, they’re to take that book, they’re to read it, they’re to meditate on it, they’re to think about it, they’re to fill their mind with it.

“Joshua 8:34 says, ‘And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.’

“When they’re going to be led into blessing, led into the land, they’re going to be corrected for their misbehavior, they’re going to look at verses in their Bible and read them. It’s that important, folks." 

(new article tomorrow for certain. I have been working every day this week, filling in for sick employees, and finally have a day off on Monday.)