A Look at Psalm 119:103

Psalm 119:103 “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.”
 

The Word of God can be sweeter than honey. Have you ever experienced that? Have you ever heard something from the Lord that was luscious? Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” When words are pleasant, they are received much more quickly. It is not always what is said, but rather how it is said. Whenever the Lord speaks to us it comes from a heart of love. In that light, He could speak words of discipline in an encouraging way. 

In Proverbs 16:23 we read how our own pleasant words can be sweet to those who hear us. “A wise man’s heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction.” A wise person is a person who fears God. Their heart is full of the Lord. When they speak from their heart, it adds persuasiveness to their lips. When we speak from our hearts, there is a sweetness to our words that make them persuasive because we have an instructed tongue.

Jesus had the same type of tongue. Isaiah prophecies about Him in his book. “The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary” Isaiah 50:4. Jesus knows how to speak a word in season to the one who is weary. He then proceeds to tell us how He gained an “instructed tongue.”
 

“He awakens me by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.” Morning by morning Jesus rose to spend time in the presence of His Father and to be taught by Him. Anyone who spends time in God’s presence, being taught by Him will gain the “instructed tongue” which knows how to speak a word in season to the one who is weary.
 

Let me encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse; as you do, ask God to help you develop the same kind of tongue Jesus had.

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