Speak Sweetness

What’s your favorite source of sweetness?  We’re advised the healthiest place for that “sugar fix” is fruit but sometimes nothing seems to do-the-trick except chocolate or ice cream or … Peeps!  The Easter season used to be the only time of year you could buy those sweetie-cuties, but now you can get them in forms of Valentine hearts, Winter snowmen, and even Fall pumpkins! Peeps year-round – what a delight!

 

What is sweeter than honey!  Scripture refers to this golden goodness at least 28 times.  Proverbs 16:24 relates our words to this treasured fruit of the honeybee, “Gracious words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.”  I suspect none of us really know the intensity of our words when they are harsh, nor how long the sting of them remains.  Danny, our oldest son, is a bee-keeper.  He hasn't enjoyed much honey yet, but he's lived-to-tell of bees inside his bee-suit!  When spoken carelessly, our words are unpleasant even hurtful, much like a swarm [of bees] to others.  Kind words, however, are gracious -- as a soothing balm (salve) giving healing to the soul of man that is sickened by sin.  Matthew Henry writes, "The bones are the strength of the body; and the good word of God is a means of spiritual strength, curing the diseases that weaken us."  Oh, how our world lacks sweetness, forbid it that God’s chosen ones contribute any more to another's sickness.  Let us know the Source of our sweetness -- Jesus Christ.  By His grace, may His nature be that of our own -- let us taste and see that He indeed is good (Psalm 34:8), and always speak sweetness!