He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; “And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.”   Psalms 81:6

I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.   Song of Solomon  5:11

Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon.   Psalm 4:11

Our worship is like honey to Him. And oh, how He loves OUR honey!  God calls us lilies in Song of Solomon; we are the flowers of His garden and He loves the sweet flow of our worship rising to heaven. Just as bees fly from flower to flower to gather the nectar that will become honey, so our worship, our songs, as we magnify Him, flow as honey to Him, intensifying even His sweetness, making it richer and fuller in flavor and bringing a fresh taste of His sweetness into our lives at the same time.

We each have a unique, flavor honey to pour out on Him.  In the natural, honey has many different flavors depending on the type of plants the nectar came from. So also each of us come to worship bearing a different flavor. Even the season we are walking in, and the circumstances of our lives change the flavor of our worship, each different one adding fresh depth and aroma. Each of us is unique, and our worship blesses Him, but there is an even greater richness in the anointing on us as His body. When we come together to worship in unity, there is such a powerful blending of those flavors bringing completeness to the honey flowing to heaven.

Honey has to be used continually and kept at a warm temperature or it becomes hardened and crystallized and no longer flows. If it solidifies, you have to heat it again to make it flow. In the same way, He puts us in the fire of His love, in the furnace of His testing and refining, to soften our hearts, and to enlarge our hearts, and to keep the river of His life flowing within us and through us, lest we become hardened in any way. 

A little honey goes a long way! Honey pours slowly, because it is thick and rich. ! He wants our flow to be thick and rich with Him, and as we enjoy His sweetness and choose to pour out our love on Him, He will turn all our bitter places sweet. His love is like honey poured out on us, dripping, thick and strong and pure, covering us, and enriching us. Sometimes we chafe at the slowness, we get frustrated with His timing, but He pours at His pace for our blessing.

Honey has antiseptic and healing properties. It soothes and coats sore throats. Healing will be released as we love on Him and worship Him. And as we feed on the honey of His Word, we will be changed and made whole. There is always fresh sweetness for us in His Word. But more than Him ministering to us, He wants to pour us out as honey to those around us who hurt, to soothe them and to heal them, to minister His sweetness to their hearts, and to ‘coat’ them with Jesus.

Honey bears ravenously pursue the sweetness of honey. Oh that we would be like these fat, gluttonous bears, continually dipping our hands into the heavenly honey pot, daily feasting on the sweetness of His word and His presence, and then liberally sharing with others! In fact, He wants our hearts so us so full of His rich sweet honey, so satiated with the fat on the Word, and so full of the river of life that His life flows out of us like honey. The hands of the bear are sticky, as is his fur, and ants are attracted to the sticky sweetness. Jesus wants us to be so sticky with Him, that many are attracted and drawn to grab hold of Him because of the taste of honey on us, the sound of the honey of His words upon our lips, the golden glow of His grace upon us.

But  Lord, what about the bees? Ouch! We see bees as pests; they sting and invade our space and even threaten us. We see people like this so often – those who bother us, demand of us, ‘bug’ us, or attack us, yet these are the ones so in need of His salvation, and His sweetness. How we need to flow with His grace and sweetness to these ones who drain us and hurt us and use us. Bees are drawn to honey pots too, they sing around them, and sting if we get in the way. Yet the honey is only there because the bees made it in the first place. God uses the negative stuff in our lives to make us sweet and full and rich, to transform us, to fill us fuller with Him. 

Remember the honey is golden…and that is what He works in us too, that pure gold of His glory within and upon and through us.

Lillis Boyer and Sylvia Deall