“How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth” (Psa. 119:103). The psalmist had not only heard the words of God, but fed upon them:they affected his palate as well as his ear. God’s words are many and varied, and the whole of them make up what we call “the Word.” The psalmist loved them each one individually as well as the whole of them; he tasted an indescribable sweetness in them. He expresses the fact of their sweetness, but as he cannot express the degree of their sweetness he exclaims, “How sweet!” Being God’s words they were divinely sweet to God’s servant; he who put the sweetness into them had prepared the taste of his servant to discern and enjoy it. The psalmist makes no distinction between promises and precepts, doctrines and threatenings; they are all included in God’s words, and all are precious in his esteem. Oh, for a deep love for all that the Lord has revealed, whatever form it may take.

            “Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” When he did not only eat but also speak the word by instructing others, he felt an increased delight in it. The sweetest of all temporal things fall short of the infinite deliciousness of the eternal word; honey itself is outstripped in sweetness by the Word of the Lord. When the psalmist fed on it he found it sweet; but when he bore witness of it, it became sweeter still. How wise it will be on our part to keep the Word on our palate by meditation and on our tongue by confession. It must be sweet to our taste when we think of it, or it will not be sweet to our mouth when we talk of it.