So, I went to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. “Yes, take it and eat it,” he said. “It will be sweet as honey in your mouth, but it will turn sour in your stomach!”
Revelation 10:9
How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey.
Psalm 119:103
- “This figure of eating the book is familiar, and suggests the feeding of the soul on the Word of God.” – G. Campbell Morgan
- “Such an action symbolized the reception of the Word of God into the innermost being as a necessary prerequisite to proclaim it with confidence.” – B.W. Johnson
- “Every revelation of God’s purposes… is ‘bitter-sweet,’ disclosing judgment as well as mercy.” – Henry Barclay Swete
Hebrews 4:12
- For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
(AMPC)
- God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one can resist God’s Word. We can’t get away from it—no matter what.
(MSG)
- For whatever God says to us is full of living power: it is sharper than the sharpest dagger, cutting swift and deep into our innermost thoughts and desires with all their parts, exposing us for what we really are.
(TLB)
Charles Spurgeon said of John Bunyan, “If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he’d bleed Scripture!”
Learn, live, and love the Word so much that one day someone would say of Wendy Pope, “If you cut her, she’d bleed scripture!”
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