January 24, 2023
Tuesday
Words Like Honey
Romans 14:19
24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the sweet delights of honey. Bees collect nectar from flowers and return to their hive where they store it in wax honeycombs. They create honey as a food source for themselves during the winter, but excess honey has graced human tables for ages.
Honey is a source of glucose like cane sugar and other sweeteners. For that reason, it has long satisfied the human “sweet tooth.” And honey served as an illustration of the power of words in the Old Testament. Just as honey brings delight and satisfaction, so can pleasant and edifying words. Just as nutritious foods help to build human health, so wise and loving words can build up the spiritual and emotional health of people. Building up others (“edifying” is the biblical word) is a major responsibility of Christians. Paul told the Romans to pursue “the things by which one may edify another” (Romans 14:19)—and that certainly includes our words.
Look for a way today to build up and encourage another person by the words you speak to them. Let your words be like honey to their soul.
A point to ponder…
Whatever moves the heart wags the tongue.
C. T. Studd
Read the Bible through in a year
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