His mouth is sweetness itself;

Song 5:16 (portion)

Oh, how I love His Word.  His mouth is sweetness itself.  There is nothing finer, nothing more pleasant, nothing more desirable, than His mouth.  Taste and see that He is good.

If ever there was a question about God’s greatness, it is settled in this.  You may talk about love, but He is it.  You may talk about justice, but He is it.  You may talk about joy, but He is the only source.  You may talk about peace, but He is its prince.  You may talk about patience, but who is more than He?  You may talk about kindness, but show me another father willing to send all his prophets, and then, at the last, His son.  You may talk about anything that it is to be human, and, you may see someone demonstrate some portion of it, or you may see idealized someone who is famed for it, but Jesus is it all.

Many have various views about what the Kingdom is.  But, one thing that must be understood, is that it is His.  Hear oh Israel, the Lord, The Lord is One.  He is not distinct from His Kingdom.  He is not only the beginning and the end, but He is our all in all.

In all of His Power and Majesty, He is the only Good King.  In all of His strength, He does not crush the broken.

God doesn’t change.  A Kingdom that is not near the broken hearted, comforting the afflicted and the downtrodden, so long as they exist, is not His.  A Kingdom that does not offer one’s first-born to save the lost is not His Kingdom.  A Kingdom that does not lose all for love is not His Kingdom.

The leaders of Jesus’ day expected a different kind of King.  His is also that man with the robe dipped in blood, but it never leaves the realm of perfect justice.  Even as the terrible judgments are poured out, in Revelation 16:7, the altar itself approved of God’s judgements, saying, “true and righteous are your judgement.”  While much of the world may cry out about the injustice of the punishments, and hardships, and the tribulation, the official voice, the one whose job it is to ascertain true justice, offers his official, judicial decree.  True and Righteous.

For His mouth is sweetness itself and He is altogether lovely.  This is my lover; this is my friend.

True and undefiled religion is this, to look after widows and orphans in their time of distress, and to keep onesself unspotted from the world (James 1:27).  He spoke the world into existence, and yet speaks to the one in need.  He is the friend to the friendless, hope to the hopeless, rest for the restless, and strength for the weak.  He fulfills all your dreams, and your desires (Psalm 37:4), and makes the poor to walk on the high places of the Earth (Psalm 113:8).

Sure and upright is the Lord, and altogether wonderful.

When He speaks the earth trembles.  At His word the worlds were framed.  At His voice time began, and from His lips man breathed his first breath.

He carries me and sustains me upon the apples of His word.  He fulfills and satisfies me with the kisses of His Mouth.  He charges and commands me, at the lifting of His Voice.  And He surrounds and defends me with the fury of His wrath.

He is the voice that I hear, it is the only voice I listen to.  His heart changes mine to love, his life makes me whole again.

There is no want for those that serve Him.  His ways are perfect in the Heavens and all His ways are just.

Before we can understand the universe, before we can preach to the thousands, we must first sit beneath the shade of the fruit tree, and eat of His gift of life.

Surely, His mouth is sweetness itself.  There can be none other, ever before, nor after, for His is, and He fills all in all.