My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
More Scrumptious Than Steak and Sweeter Than Honey
Published by: Pam Larson
October 3, 2011
More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.—Psalm 19:10
Do you find God's Word sweeter than honey? Do you crave the Word? Or do you find yourself bloated with the "junk food" this world offers?
...suppose a coach prepares a steak dinner for his football team every day and spreads it before them freely, without cost, and says to them: eat and enjoy this rich meal every day and you will have strength to win the championship. And suppose that half the team instead goes to the candy store and the bakery, and week after week eats sweets and pastries. They start to lose games and the coach finds out they are not eating his free steak dinners and rebukes them. Some of them become indignant and say, "Hey we don't want a legalistic relationship with you. We want to relate to you in freedom and do what comes more naturally for our appetites."
Now that coach would be justified in saying, "It is not legalism to accept a free gift from me and to trust me that it is better for you than candy and pie." And so it is with Jesus. It is not legalism to welcome his free gift and infinitely valuable word. It is not legalism to savor it and revel in its preciousness. It is not legalism to believe that without it we get weaker and weaker and more and more worldly.—Pastor John Piper, Praying From the Fullness of the Word, December 1996
Bethlehem Women's Ministry offers many opportunities for women to gather and enjoy "steak dinners" together! See our information page or sign up for a Bible study today. Be encouraged to savor and enjoy the sweetness of the infinitely valuable Word of God!
Remember, it is not hasty reading—but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower, which gathers honey—but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most—but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.—Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, p 14