【双语灵修】吃蜂蜜EATING HONEY

以西结书 2:9-3:4

9 我观看，见有一只手向我伸出来，手中有一书卷。 10 他将书卷在我面前展开，内外都写着字，其上所写的有哀号、叹息、悲痛的话。 1 他对我说：“人子啊，要吃你所得的，要吃这书卷，好去对以色列家讲说。” 2 于是我开口，他就使我吃这书卷。 3 又对我说：“人子啊，要吃我所赐给你的这书卷，充满你的肚腹。”我就吃了，口中觉得其甜如蜜。 4 他对我说：“人子啊，你往以色列家那里去，将我的话对他们讲说。

2026-07-23

吃蜂蜜

“又对我说：‘人子啊，要吃我所赐给你的这书卷，充满你的肚腹。’我就吃了，口中觉得其甜如蜜。” - 以西结书 3:3

我每天早晨，都习惯饮一杯用苹果醋调和一汤匙蜜糖的茶。我相信这种苦甜参半的饮料，会帮助消化又能对抗过敏症，而那一汤匙的蜜糖又能令我头脑清醒。

当以西结作先知时，他从神得到信息，去警告人有关巴比伦将会带来的毁坏。这是一个苦甜参半的信息，它预备神的子民去面对一场大灾害，他们将会失去自己的家园，而位于耶路撒冷的圣殿也会被摧毁。以西结的预言原是洁净和保存神的子民的良方。

这些人因为长期参与异教，又享用拜偶像的食物，所以他们不能接受这“能吃的书卷”的信息，他们也不肯听从先知的话。以西结能够传达这些信息，是因为他吃了、消化了，又将这“甜如蜜”的神的话语，深深地铭刻在心中。神的话语保守和激励他去传讲神的信息。

在过去的几千年间，神的话语藉着圣灵启示出来，然后被收集成为《圣经》，这些话语是真实和苦甜参半的。你会怎样做，来吃、消化，并将神的话语铭刻在你心中？神的话语有没有洁净和激励你，努力把祂的信息传给其他人呢？

祷告

主啊，求你保护我们，免受在外围的毒害环境所影响。求你把你的话语裁种在我们心中。求你拯救、洁净、和使用我们，去传讲你生命之道。阿们。

Ezekiel 2:9-3:4

THURSDAY, JULY 23

EATING HONEY

He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. —Ezekiel 3:3

My morning ritual includes a cup of tea mixed with apple cider vinegar and a tablespoon of honey. I believe this bittersweet drink is good for digestion and fighting allergies. It seems also that a spoonful of honey may be good medicine that keeps my head clear.

In Ezekiel’s time as a prophet, he received messages from God to warn his people of the coming destruction from Babylon. The messages were bittersweet and meant to prepare God’s people for a great disaster, the loss of their homeland and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. Ezekiel’s words of prophecy were intended as medicine to purify and preserve God’s people.

For too long these people had been mixing with other religions and eating at the tables of false gods. So they could not stomach the messages of this edible scroll, and they would not listen. Ezekiel was able to bring the messages because he had ingested, digested, and internalized the “sweet as honey” Word of God in his heart and mind. The Word of God sustained and energized him to speak the Lord’s message.

God’s Spirit-breathed Word in the Bible, given and gathered over thousands of years, is true and bittersweet. What are you doing to ingest, digest, and internalize this Word? Is God’s Word purifying and energizing you so that his message can go out to others?

Lord, protect us from the sickening messages of the toxic world around us. Plant your Word in our hearts. Rescue, purify, and use us to speak your words of life. Amen.