How do you get something sweet out of a hard, unyielding place?
God is in the honey business.
We know this because our text says so: "With honey from the rock I would satisfy you" (v. 16). God has honey, and God wants to give us some.
Show me the honey!
Getting honey from a rock is not like getting blood from a turnip — it's something that can actually be done — but it requires keeping your ears open.
If you're looking for an actual beehive in a rocky land, listening for the buzzing of the bees helps you detect the location of a hive. If you're looking for honey from a rock as God promises in Psalm 81, where the term is a metaphorical stand-in for God's blessings, listening for God's voice helps you receive it.
"Honey from the rock" is an intriguing phrase, and, at least to those of us who don't live where it's common, it may sound like something impossible. But not so. No less an authority than the "Orkin Man," who surely knows a few things about insects, says, "Wild honey bees make hives in rock crevices, hollow trees and other areas that ...
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