His Name Like Honey on Our Lips
OK, let's get into the second section of the song, which sounds like this.
Your name is like honey on my lips
Your Spirit like water to my soul.
The Sweetness of the Name of Jesus
I wonder if that's true for you. If the name of Jesus is like honey, sweet, satisfying, just saying it fills your soul with great satisfaction.
Now His original Hebrew name was Yeshua or Joshua, but when you translate it into Greek, it becomes Jesus. Basically. And so the name Jesus or Joshua is a pretty normal name, but of course, as we learned this week, it was His title, was who He was — the fact that He was the holy and anointed one, the Christ, that made Him who He is.
When you think of Jesus and when you say His name, all sorts of wonderful things should pop into your mind and your soul about what He did, who He is, the type of person He was, and of course, as we learned yesterday, the fact that He is risen and exalted. And so we sing Jesus, Jesus, and just His name gives us such joy.
In fact, in the song we sang His name 17 times in a short little while because we love saying it so much.
The Power and Authority of His Name
Now Paul in Philippians 2 said that “God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth”. God's great desire is for the name of Jesus to have power and authority in our lives.
In fact, later Paul in 1 Thessalonians 1:12 prays “that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in the people.”
I wonder if His name means as much to you as it might now.
Recovering Spiritual Taste
At various points in our marriage, Shereen and I have given up processed sugar. It was part of banting, and then it was part of other things. But what we learned is when you eat too much processed sugar, you actually stop tasting the sweetness in unprocessed things, in natural sugars. But once you give up sugar, you start to taste amazing sweetness in things the way they really are.
I wonder if it could be that in our spiritual lives? We're so busy trying to derive sweetness from all sorts of other areas of our lives that we have stopped tasting the sweetness of God. The sweetest thing to your soul should be Jesus.
If it's not, perhaps your spiritual taste buds have been deadened by false sweetness, if I can put it that way. So maybe it's time to give up some processed spiritual sugar so that the name of Jesus is sweet, sweet, sweet again on your lips.
May it be that today, as you sing these words throughout the day, you will find His sweetness to be satisfying, pleasurable in your hearts.
The women came to the tomb to anoint Jesus - even in their grief, they wanted to serve Him. This Easter, bring your 'spices' and offer your best to the risen King.