Psalm 119:103 - "How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!"
Proverbs 24:13 - "My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste."
Psalm 19:10 - "More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb."
Proverbs 16:24 - "Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body."
As a Southerner, born in Georgia, reared in TN, and now living in Alabama for a whole bunch of years, I can't help but think about sweet tea when I hear God's word talked about as honey.
Here's a few Southern, Summer, sweet tea observations.
Sweet tea is a redundant phrase in the South. Tea is always sweet. If it's not, then you call it unsweet tea.
In actuality, sweet tea is pronounced swayt tay.
To qualify as Southern sweet tea, you must be able to liken it to hummingbird feed, which means it's raaaayl swaaaayt.
Some guy named Milo has the ultimate secret swayt tay fomuluh round these parts, just like the Cuhnel has the chickin fomuluh.
Swayt tay has been identified as the cause of young ladies (who grew up in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and the like) goin' up to their senior uncles and granddads (who often persist in their Northern ways) and pullin' the grumpy out of 'em by way of a Southern Swayt Tay kiss on the forehead, a big ol' smile, and a quick gentle rub of the back. Such Uncles and Granddads actually like this very much from their Southern nieces and granddaughters, but they just can't let anyone know it.
The bottom line is that Swayt Tay, the Honey that is God's Word, and the sweet taste of grace (which is merely an outpouring of love for no particular reason) is truly some life-changing, heart-transforming, smile-creating stuff.
So have ya some tay; have ya some honey; have ya some word of God; you'll find it's worth faaaaar more than money.
And then spread the love, People. Spread the love. Spread the swayt, life-changing, love of God in Jesus Christ.
Praise God!
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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