02/24/2021 GOD’s SWEET WORD
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
[New International Translation]
Summary
With 176 verses, Psalm 119 is the longest chapter and the longest psalm in the Bible. Psalm 119 is an alphabetic acrostic (i.e. composition) psalm. The first eight verses of the psalm all begin with the letter “aleph,” the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The next eight verses begin with “beth,” the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and so on. Psalm 119 covers the entire Hebrew alphabet, which is one of the reasons why the Psalm is so long.
Verse 103 of Psalm 119 is under the Hebrew letter, “mem.” The verses under “mem” contain verses that express “the love of God’s law”--- the sweetness of GOD’s WORD. To the writer, not even the best and the sweetest honey in all the land compares to how sweet THE WORD.
Sugary Sweets
Many Americans are addicted to sugary sweets. According to the American Heart Association, some of the major sources of sugars include the following: soft drinks/energy/sports drinks, candy, sugars, cookies, pies, fruit drinks, dairy desserts, and milk products (e.g., sweetened yogurt, sweetened milk) and some grain-based items (e.g. cinnamon toast, honey-nut waffles).
It’s important to read the labels and ingredients on the packages. Some of the names of sugars include maltose, sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, molasses, cane sugar, corn sweetener, raw sugar, syrup, honey, ready-to-eat cereals, and fruit juice concentrates.
According to the American Heart Association, we should think of sugar and calories this way: Four calories in every gram of sugar. It a product has 15 grams of sugar, you are ingesting 60 calories just from the sugar alone.