Eat the Scroll

“Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” (Ezekiel 3:1 TLB)

I think about this portion of Scripture often.

“Eat the scroll.”

Those words seem to bubble up out of my spirit and into my mind throughout my day. Sometimes while I’m driving. Sometimes while I’m working. Sometimes they simply rise up again and again.

Eat the scroll….🕊️🙌

And every time they do, my heart smiles.

I love our God. I love His heart, His mind, His ways, and His character. He has never changed. Not from generation to generation. Not from Ezekiel’s day until now. He is the same loving Father, the same holy God, the same faithful Shepherd, and the same One who still speaks to His children today.

When God told Ezekiel to eat the scroll, Ezekiel obeyed. And when he did, it was sweet as honey in his mouth. I love that.

The Lord wasn’t simply giving Ezekiel words to read. He was inviting him to take His Word in deeply, to receive it and let it become part of him. Isn’t that still what He desires for us today?

Not for His Word to sit on a shelf collecting dust. Not for us to visit it once in a while when we need something. But for it to live inside of us, nourishing us, strengthening us, transforming us, and drawing us closer to His heart.

The older I get, the more I realize that His Word isn’t something I just read. It’s life….🌱

His Word has carried me through broken seasons, waiting seasons, joyful seasons, and seasons filled with questions. It has comforted me when I was hurting, corrected me when I was wandering, and reminded me over and over again that He is faithful.

I love Him because He loved me first.🦋

Long before I knew Him, He knew me. Long before I loved Him, He loved me. Long before I called on His name, He was calling mine.

What a beautiful Father.

So when I hear those words, “Eat the scroll,” I don’t hear a command. I hear the heart of a loving Father inviting His children closer.

Come sit with Me.

Know My heart.

Take My Word into your heart until it becomes part of who you are.

And every time I do, I find the same thing Ezekiel found.

It is sweet as honey.

Oh, how I love Him.

My friends…the world is full of voices competing for our attention, but there is only one voice that truly gives life.

Eat the scroll.

Sit with Him.

Open His Word.

Let His truth become part of you.

You may discover, just as Ezekiel did, that His Word is still as sweet as honey. 🥰

“So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.” (Ezekiel 3:3) 💜