Daily Bible Nugget #251, Psalm 119:103

The Nugget:

Psalm 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

My Comment:

Saints regard the Scriptures as sweet (The New Topical Textbook, heading under the topic The Scriptures, p. 240). Saints are in the Bible those who truly believe in God and in His written word, the Bible. They are holy, and live holy lives as God enables them to do so. Every genuine Christian today is in Bible terms a saint, or holy one. Bible saints have nothing to do with what may be called canonized saints as sanctioned or declared by the Roman Catholic Church. One of the characteristics of a true saint, a true believer, is that a true believer finds delight in reading and studying the word of God, the Bible. If this does not describe you, then you need to consider whether you really are a genuine, transformed, believer. If you are not, don’t despair yet. You can become a believer by reading the New Testament. The New Testament tells about how to become a true Christian through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I first understood this when as a teenager in 1953 I began reading the New Testament seriously and consecutively from beginning to end. You can have the same blessed experience I did if you would do the same. I was hungry for the Word of God. The more I read, the more interesting it became. I came to the place where I could echo the statement of the Psalmist in Psalm 119:103. I received an email newsletter the other day that had a link to an article about honey, something about the fact that honey is a natural sweetener that inhibits cancer. The link did not work, unfortunately, but the title was enough. My wife told me today that she has been using honey rather than sugar in my oatmeal every morning. Honey is indeed a tasty treat. It really tastes good. That is how the Bible should be to us as we read it for ourselves. Try it. You will like it. Reading and believing the Bible, and obeying it, will surely eliminate the spiritual cancer of sin in our lives and prepare us for heaven.

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 631 for Psalm 119:103.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 676 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Psalm 119:103.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:

Psalm 119:103. sweet. T#1082. ver. Ps 119:113. *Ps 19:10. 56:10. 63:5. 104:34. Ne 8:12. **Jb 23:12. 33:23. Pr 2:10. 3:17. *Pr 8:11. 16:24. 22:18. *Pr 24:13, 14. Song 1:2-4. 5:1, 16. **Je 15:16. Ezk 3:1-3. Mt 5:6. Ro 12:2. 1 J 5:3. Re 10:9, 10. taste. Heb. palate. Ps 34:8. 137:6. Jb 6:6, 30mg. Jb 12:11mg. +Jb 31:30mg. Jb 34:3mg. Pr 5:3mg. Song 2:3mg. Ho 8:1mg. sweeter than. Lk 18:30. Jn 4:32. Ro 12:2. *He 5:14. honey. Ps 19:10. 34:8. 81:16. Ge 43:11. Pr 16:24. 24:13, 14. 27:7. Song 4:11. Ezk 3:3. 2 Cor 2:14. Re 10:9, 10. to my mouth. Song 5:16. Ho 8:1.