It’s a Sweet Life!

 

Look at those pumpkin bar cupcakes with cream cheese icing! Are you salivating yet? Alaska mom did a wonderful job making these bite sized delights for a recent baby shower! Don’t you wish you could have one?!
Life is sweet…or should I say, it can be. It all depends on how you handle the holy things of God.
For instance, choosing the joy of The Lord, when you could choose otherwise, brings a sweet life! When Nehemiah and Ezra were speaking to the people they said in Nehemiah 8:10, “Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet…for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” The people could take of the sweet things in life and be merry because they had God’s joy even in tough times.
Also, we can enjoy a sweet life if we determine to think correctly and consistently about our Lord. Psalm 104:34 says, “My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.” 
Are you noticing how gladness and joy are intertwined with the sweet life The Lord desires you to have?
We miss out on a daily sweet life when we neglect to read and study the Word of God. David knew the joy and pleasure of a daily walk in the Word to the extent that he even stated in Psalm 119:103, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” How sweet are God’s Words to you today?
If you are lazy or going after the wrong pleasures in life you may not be enjoying the sweet life that God has for you. Check out Ecclesiastes 5:12, “The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”
When you fall in love with God’s pick for your life, your married life will be sweet! 
Song of Songs 2:14 “O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.”
We have seen how life can be sweet, but, as we close, have you ever considered that based upon your daily reaction to God you can be sweet to Him and others? David is a testimony of this in 2 Samuel 23:1, “Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel…”
May I ask you a question…if God were to describe you would he call you sweet? If we learn the power of Joy, the peace of mediating on The Lord, the preciousness of God’s Words, the pleasure of hard work, and to love God’s pick of the right spouse you will be able to say, IT’S A SWEET LIFE!
May God grant you the pleasure of knowing the sweetness of this present life as you live your life for Him!
Thank you for reading and heeding!
Pastor Smith

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