Sweet Honey out of a rock....

Psalms 81:16 In this verse God shows His children one of His promises that He will satisy us with honey out of the rock.

Keep in mind that honey is one of the sweetest things that nature produces for us and a rock is the hardest thing in nature. So here, we have sweetness coming out of hardness...honey out of the rock? We both know that God is not speaking literally here because we both know that honey does not come out of a rock but we either get it from a honeycomb or a jar.

The Lord is telling us something much deeper in this verse. "that we are going to have hard places in our life and we are going to run up against the rocks", but we don't need to be discouraged, because He is going to give us honey out of the rock and we are going to experience sweetness out of the hard experiences in our life.

No matter how many rocks we encounter in our lives we will always find honey in the rocks if we will just turn everything over to the Lord.

Have you ever truly meditated on the difficulties the Lord Jesus faced while He was on earth
--born into a poor home
--never really owned much
--born into a despised and rejected race
--When He tried to do good things people tried to turn them into evil
--When he forgave a sinner, He was called a friend of the sinner
--If He ate a meal with a friend He was called a glutton
--He spoke the truth, yet He was called a liar
--He revealed God's power, yet the religious leaders said He was in a league with the devil
--Every where He turned he faced difficulties

.....But He never ran away from hard places of life. He knew He was doing His Father's will, so he accepted the rocks and the honey that was in them.

Yep Jesus faced the rocks of life and then men took him outside the city and crucified Him on a rock a Hill called Calvary, a place that looked like a skull.
And then his friends took his body and placed it in a rock (Joseph's new tomb)
Then He arose from the dead, from the Hill of Calvary and from the tomb flows the sweet honey of salvation --- honey out of the rock!

Have you trusted Jesus as your Savior yet? God says to us "O taste and see that the Lord is good". Once you know Christ you can then face the hard places of life with confidence and courage because God will give you "honey out of the rock".