UNEXPECTED SWEETNESS

Judges 14:8-9 NIV Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

We were out walking several weeks ago and we came across a diseased tree which they had cut down, and inside was this honeycomb made by wild bees which had long gone.

It was fascinating to think they had been happily making some yummy sweet honey in the middle of a decaying tree! As I thought about that I realised that we can look at some situations and think that nothing good can come out of them, but God is saying He can bring sweetness out of anything if we’ll trust Him.😊

Samson killed a lion one day and when he passed it by some time later, he discovered bees had made a honeycomb inside its carcass too! It seems bees can produce sweet honey in the most unlikely places, where you’d least expect it!

Maybe you have some things that look too far gone, or pretty bad. Take heart, because God who made the bees which make the honey, can certainly take your situation and bring sweetness out of it if we’ll believe Him to work His purposes out in the way He knows best.

Maybe it would be good to take a break and go and have some toast and honey.😊 And while you’re there ask the Lord to take whatever it is that has distressed and discouraged you, that looks as though nothing good can come out of it, and ask Him to make something sweet out of it for all concerned and for His glory. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x

(Please click photo to see honeycomb more clearly).