Have you ever watched an infant being feed food it didn't want? As hard as dad and mom try the little face darts left and right with lips tight as tupperware. The little girl or guy doesn't realize that the food the parent wants to provide is necessary for growth and sustenance. They simple don't like the smell, test, or are void of the growth process and the real love of the parent. In Psalm 81 we have a similar vision as Israel is in need of food for growth, sustenance and, even, pleasure. Read verse ten and sixteen again and note that God says to them through the writer Asaph:
Psalms 81:10 & 16
“ I, the Lord, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
16 “ But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
God has to ask them to open their mouth so He can fill it! That is amazing in and of itself. God wants to fill us with fine wheat and with sweet honey. He wants to "satisfy" us. All we have to do is open our mouths to eat. Yet, like a little infant who doesn't want to cooperate, we sit at the table with our mouths closed turning to the left and the right at the sight of anything shinny. God can and will fill us and satisfy us if, by faith, if we let Him. He can bring honey out of a rock. HONEY OUT OF A ROCK!!! I have sucked on a few stones in my day (another story for another blog for another day), but never tasted anything sweet from them. Look what God can do! If you are in the proverbial place of a "rock and a hard place" this verse tells us to choose the rock ... God can produce hone out of it. Don't be childish and sit in your high chair with your lips closed tightly. Instead, go suck on a rock.
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