October 4, 2025 • 31 mins
In this inaugural episode, I share why and how I came up with Honey from the Rock, and what you can anticipate from this podcast moving forward. I talk about why honey is necessary to our spiritual lives and why Jesus is, in the midst of everything hard and beautiful about this life, truly the honey we need.
Scriptures and resources discussed in this episode:
- Psalm 71 and 81
- Matthew 11:28-30
- Luke 24:45
- Jude 24
- BibleHub.com
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SPEAKER_00 (00:03):
Hey everyone, welcome to the inaugural episode
of Honey from the Rock.
My name is Carrie, and I am yourhost of this brand new podcast.
I am so happy you're here.
I'm also a little bit nervous,if I'm being honest.
Um, this is something I havedreamed about doing for the last
14 years.
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A podcast about my walk with theLord, sharing what Jesus has
taught me about who he is, abouthis word, um, learning how the
Father is a good father and howthe Holy Spirit is our leader.
He is the spirit of truth wholeads us into all truth.
And now to be here to hit recordtoday and share the heart behind
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why I'm starting this podcast ishuge.
It's huge.
So if you hear me nervous laughthroughout this podcast, I'm
just gonna tell you I'm notgonna edit it out because I am
also learning through this wholeprocess about presence over
perfection and really not tryingto work something to death until
I feel like it's perfect.
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Because guess what?
It's never going to be.
So I hope that you enjoy thisepisode.
I also hope that you willsubscribe and join me every week
as we dig into the word, as wesearch for the honey in the
cleft of the rock, as we talkabout ways that Jesus has given
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us honey in the midst ofdarkness and difficulty and
grief and disappointment, andalso how he's given us honey in
life's amazing moments.
And sometimes it will just be metalking, other times I will
bring friends and even family onhere because I think it's
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important to not just hear myvoice, but also to hear from the
people that the Lord has broughtinto my life that have shaped my
experiences, that have taught meso much about following the
Lord, about what it looks liketo be a faithful disciple of
Jesus.
And I want you to learn fromtheir collective wisdom and
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witness as well.
So I'm so excited to launch thispodcast.
But before I get into the restof that, whatever that is, I
guess, I want to share really myheart behind why honey from the
rock is so important to me.
So this the last six years havebeen difficult to say the least.
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There's been a lot.
And and individually for me andmy family, we've we've suffered
a lot of loss, which I will talkabout.
But also, you think about thelast five or six years, you
think about COVID and lockdownsand just being alone and and
then just all sorts of things inour country and and gosh, it's
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just been unsettling.
And I know I've seen I've I'veseen a lot of things online and
I've talked to a lot of peoplein my life about really feeling
sometimes that thatunsettledness about what does
our future look like?
Where are we going?
What's what's happening?
And just the consistent reminderthat our future may be uncertain
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and and the things that arehappening may be uncertain.
But Jesus is the constant.
He is faithful, he is with us.
He said he would never leave usor forsake us.
And he means that when life isgood and we're on the
mountaintop, and he definitelymeans that when we are in the
valley and life is difficult andit is hard and it is bitter and
it is grievous.
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And it's in those times wherethe Lord's honey has been so
sweet and so good to me.
And this year uh, again, hasbeen particularly difficult.
Um, and I found a song by BrookeLighterwood and Brandon Lake
called Honey in the Rock.
I love this song.
It has become one of my anthemworship songs because I love
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that it is a powerfuldeclaration that even though I'm
in the wilderness and it issandy and it is hot and it is
gross and I am sweating and it'sthe worst, that the Lord
provides.
He provides manna, he providesmercy, um, he provides shelter
because that is who he is.
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And many times it's it's hardfor us to see those things when
we're right in the middle ofthem for a lot of different
reasons.
But there are so many times wecan look back and say, man,
Lord, that honey that you gaveme was amazing.
And so I heard this song, I'vebeen singing it full blast.
I love it's a foot stomper.
I love playing it in my car withthe windows down.
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Uh, but then I started to gointo scripture and said, you
know what, Lord, I want to knowmore about what you say about
honey.
Obviously, it's something toeat, but I want to know its
spiritual implications.
I want to know um what youreally say about it.
And so, as faithful as the Lordis, he led me to Psalm 81, 16,
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which is literally where hesays, But I would feed you with
the finest of wheat, and withhoney from the rock, I would
satisfy you.
Now, I know you notice that whenuh the Lord is talking here, he
is saying, I would feed you withhoney from the rock, I would
satisfy you.
So why is the Lord talking likethis?
Well, Psalm 81 is written byAesaph, which uh he was one of
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David's chief uh songwriters.
He was a prophet.
Uh, he wrote Psalm 73, um, whichmany people know um because it
has the verse, who on earth umwould I delight in beside you?
You know, who on earth earthwould I want as a companion
beside you, Lord?
Um, just amazing the words thatthe Holy Spirit gave this man.
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And this psalm is no different.
Asaf wrote 11 psalms, um, andthis is one of one of them.
And he starts out this song withworship, you know, sing to the
Lord, worship with joy, all ofthese things.
And then he goes back, as somany writers in the Old
Testament do, uh, goes back andsays to Israel, remember what
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the Lord has pulled you out of.
Remember his deliverance fromEgypt.
And in the the cry to rememberwhat the Lord has delivered them
from, the Lord then throughAesaph laments about Israel's
forsaking him.
So I want to read uh verses 11through 16, but I really
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encourage you to go and read thewhole Psalm because it is
amazing.
And I'm reading out of the ESV.
So uh Psalm 81, verses 11through 16 says, But my people
did not listen to my voice, andIsrael did not obey me.
So I gave them over to thestubbornness of their heart to
walk by their own plans.
Oh, that my people would listento me, that Israel would walk in
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my ways, I would quickly subduetheir enemies, and turn my hand
against their adversaries.
Those who hate the Lord wouldpretend to obey him, and the
time of their punishment wouldbe forever.
But I would feed you, the Lordis saying, I would feed you with
the finest of wheat, and withhoney from the rock I would
satisfy you.
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I love this section of theverses so much because you can
hear the plaintive cry of theLord, if I can say it like that.
There is there is a yearning inthe Lord for his people to come
back to him, right?
He wants them to listen to him,he wants them to obey him
because he knows his way is thebest.
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Even though, as Jesus tells us,it's narrow, it's difficult, it
is still the best.
To listen to the Lord and followhim in his way is what brings us
honey from the rock.
It's what brings us wheat thatmakes good bread, you know, when
you're not counting carbs.
Um, but it's it's what brings usthis beautiful walk with the
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Lord, even in the midst ofincredible difficulty.
And that's it's what the Lorddesires to do for those who walk
in his ways.
And that's so important.
We can't get honey from the Lordif we're separate from him.
We can't.
And I can tell you from my ownexperience, things that I have
done in my life, ways I havesinned against the Lord, things
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that I have struggled in, andthen been like, why are these
things happening to me?
Why is this so hard?
Well, guess what?
Some of it is the consequence ofyour own rebellion, Carrie.
How about that?
Right?
And so it's it's learning thatthe Lord desires for us to know
him.
He wants us to walk with him, hewants us to be with him, and he
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wants to be with us.
There is no honey to be found inlife's burdens and life's
difficulties without Jesus.
It's why he says, Come to me,all of you who are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest, learnof me, take my yoke upon you.
That's where the sweetness is,right?
That's where the honey is firstand foremost.
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It's in putting on the yoke ofJesus, walking with him, being
with him, learning of him,resting in him, so that when
life's hard things come, whendevastation and grief and
tragedy and trauma and thingscome to us, we know who we can
run to.
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And so I just want to encourageyou with that.
You know, if we want honey fromthe rock, we want the bread,
that amazing wheat of the Lordthat Jesus is the bread of life,
we've got to be in him.
And that was something the Lordreally hit me with when I was
digging into this scripturebecause I wanted to know, you
know, obviously honey is honey.
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But, you know, as witheverything in scripture, honey
also symbolizes things.
And so when I was doing someresearch, I use Biblehub.com.
That's not an advertisement,that's just me talking about how
much I love Biblehub.com.
It's free.
Um, has lots of greatcommentaries, lexicon, lexicons,
um, dictionaries, all of thatkind of stuff on it.
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So I was doing some research,research digging into the word
honey.
And so according to Brown DriverBriggs lexicon, this honey,
which just means honey, in inPsalm 81, it is honey in the
rock.
And that's what I was sayingearlier.
Is this rock, this honey can'tbe found in the rock unless
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you're in the rock, right?
Because Jesus is our rock.
Uh, and then they have a reallygreat topical lexicon on Bible
Hub as well.
And it so it talks about honey,and honey, whether it is
obtained from wild bees,domesticated hives, um, or
produced from date nectar.
Those were the different kindsof honey um referenced in the
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Old Testament.
But throughout the OldTestament, it functions both as
a literal foodstuff and a richsymbol of covenant blessing,
delight, and spiritualsweetness.
So then I kept looking anddigging in, and there are a lot
of references to honey in theOld Testament, but I pulled out
just a few uh so we can see howit's used in scripture.
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So, first and foremost, ifyou've watched Veggie Tales or
you've read um the Pentateuch,you've read Exodus, you see or
Genesis, you see over and overagain the Lord promises to lead
Israel out of Egypt into a landflowing with milk and honey.
Uh, he says it again and againand again.
Mana that the Lord provided forthe people, uh, Scripture says
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was like coriander seed, white,and its taste was like wafers
with honey.
Uh, Samson, you know, Samson,you know, for all of his
foilables and sin and hisrebellion, the Lord used his
strengths to do some incrediblethings.
He kills that lion, he goes onhis merry way.
A week later he comes back, andwhat's coming out of this lion
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is honey.
Bees have taken residence there,and there is honey.
And he goes in and he dips hishand.
He goes back to the carcass ofthe enemy that he conquered and
he takes honey from it invictory.
I love it.
Um, Proverbs tells us not tooverindulge in honey lest it
makes us sick.
Both Ezekiel and John, so Oldand New Testament here, Ezekiel
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the prophet, and John theapostle were told to eat the
word and that it would tastelike honey in their mouths.
And John was told that it wouldbe honey, it'd be sweet in his
mouth, but it would be bitter inhis stomach.
And then the other thing that Ithought was so cool was that it
was a part of John the Baptist'sdiet.
Uh, he was a prophet.
We know that John was in thewilderness until he was launched
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onto the national stage beforeuh Jesus came and made himself
public as well.
And scripture tells us that Johnwore camel hair and he ate
locusts and he ate honey.
And that really stuck out to mebecause we see throughout
scripture that the prophet'slife can is is bitter.
There is a lot of bitternessbecause the prophet was often
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called and still is today, stillis today, called to speak, yes,
edification, yes, um, all sortsof things, but but to speak the
mind of the Lord in discernmentto people, to sound the alarm.
So many prophets in the OldTestament had to bring hard
words.
But what did they also bring?
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There was always hope in theword that they brought.
There was always honey, thathope oracle.
Here is what I'm gonna do to youif you don't repent.
But if you repent, here's what Iwill do.
Or even you're gonna go intocaptivity.
You've passed the point whereyour repentance is going to be
able to change what's going on.
But even though you're goinginto captivity, when I bring you
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out, it's like the Lord sayingthis through Jeremiah, I will
bring you back, I will bring youback to the land.
There will be a remnant, therewill be a shoot that comes up
from the stump, all of thosethings, and that's honey.
And that the Lord let John eathoney in the wilderness to
sweeten the difficulty of thewilderness, I think is amazing.
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And then the other thing that isreally cool is in Luke 24, 42,
and it's a footnote, but I thinkit's really important to note
that Jesus is on the shore andhe's, you know, he's built that
fire, like John tells us.
And the disciples offer him apiece of broiled fish and some
honeycomb.
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And uh the topical lexicon saysthis validates material
resurrection and celebratingcovenant sweetness fulfilled.
And I love that so much.
Again, proving Jesus wasresurrected in body, he ate
things, he had to digest it.
Uh, but there was there was thesweetness he had just endured,
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the most horrific thing that hasever happened ever in the
history of man, the horrificnessof his crucifixion, the perfect
God man on the cross, whippedand bloody and bruised for our
transgressions, buried and onthe third day, risen by the
power of the Holy Spirit,sitting with his disciples,
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partaking in a meal, eating thefish and eating the honey.
There is the sweetness that thatwhat he has done is it is
finished.
And I and I love it, I love itso much.
But in the midst of all of this,what hit me is, you know, for a
lot of us, life doesn't feelthis way, right?
There's there it feels likethere's so much bitterness or
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disappointment or unfulfilleddreams or grief and sorrow and
depression that we all strugglewith, if we're honest, we all
struggle with it.
And sometimes it's day-to-day,sometimes it's just a season.
Um, but we're all dealing withsomething.
And there are times when it is agreat season.
But I know for a lot of people,there are times that just are
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hard and they feel likeprolonged seasons of difficulty.
And it's part of the reason whyI wanted to start this podcast
because this isn't about beingPollyanna, it's not about
ignoring the difficulty of thethings that we experience and
the hardness of grief ordisappointment or betrayal or
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trauma.
It's not just always trying tolook on the bright side.
Um, what I want to share on thispodcast, and I know the people
who all I will bring on it, itthe things that we've learned
have come out of the dark placesin life.
You know, I can tell you of somany times where I have laid on
the floor with not-filled tearsof grief, asking Jesus why he's
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letting me go through somethingso difficult and heartbreaking.
And again, sometimes at my ownhand, reaping the consequences
of my own sin.
Sometimes it's the afflictionand the suffering that the Lord
appoints.
Sometimes I don't know why.
But I've cried out to the Lordand I'm asking him for his
leading.
You know, there's there's beendays where I have felt so numb
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and like just don't care aboutanything, or I've been so angry,
or I've been so happy and fullof joy and laughter, or full of
grief and hurt and depression.
It's the human experience,right?
And in those really difficulttimes, what I have learned is
that Jesus hasn't given me honeyto assuage me like that um
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temper tantrum throwing child inthe grocery store, right?
Who's screaming for candy.
As a literal real life example,my mom and I just and my
brother, we were at the Omahazoo here a week ago, and there
was this just child losing hismind because he wanted candy.
And kudos to the dad.
He he didn't just try and shuthim up.
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He was trying to explain to himwhy he couldn't have it.
And I know that dad was soembarrassed because that kid was
loud.
And that's how we can besometimes with the Lord, right?
We are crying and we are loud,and and the Lord's not then just
throwing us sweetness or honeyto shut us up, right?
No, he is giving us honeybecause he wants us to know him.
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And and his honey, the the thesweetness, those glimpses of
comfort and kindness and andbeing held by him, ministry from
his people in his word, thosethings have sustained me.
They've given me new life when Ifelt like I couldn't keep going.
Um, he's also given me honeythat's tasted like dessert,
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right?
You know, you get dessert andit's the oh, it's so good, and
it's at the end of a really goodmeal.
And other times it's tasted likehope, like good things are
coming, and that's actually theseason that I'm in right now is
a lot of grief and a lot ofdifficulty and just processing a
lot of hard things.
But I have this intense sense ofhope and that the Lord has good
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things coming for me.
The Lord has good things comingfor the people I love and the
people I care about.
And so the other thing that I'velearned um in life is that you
know, we can't appreciate honeyuh if we eat it all the time.
But in our society, we consumeso much fake sweetness, right?
So much, I mean, you there's thepink packet, the blue packet,
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the yellow packet, there's rawsugar, there's stevia, there's
you know, monk fruit, there'sall sorts of sweetness that we
can add.
And what I think we've alllearned from time to time, if we
consume too much fakeness, toomuch fake sweetness, when we go
to eat the real thing, then allof a sudden it's not sweet
enough because all we've done isconsume empty counterfeits,
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right?
And so we we then we eat thereal thing and we're like, well,
this doesn't taste really good.
It doesn't satisfy us the waythat it should.
We reject it because we'vefilled ourselves with so much
empty junk, right?
And then there's the there's theopposite, and I'm using, you
know, diet examples because, youknow, honey is actually real.
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Um, and and there's there's thediet of like, you know, all
meat, no fun, all plants, nojoy, right?
You know, where you're just sorestricted on what you can, and
hey, it works for some people,I'm not knocking anything.
But follow me here because whenwe then cut everything out
that's sweet in that way, all ofa sudden, if we taste something
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sweet, it can feel like it's toomuch.
It overwhelms our palate.
And sometimes in life I havefound when I've been in the
depth of grief and the Lord doessomething good for me, he does
something kind for me, it almostfeels like it's too much.
And honestly, sometimes whenI've been working through
something, whether it's anger orforgiveness or bitterness or
whatever it is, and I know, Iknow the Lord is telling me to
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let it go.
And I'm fighting and I want to,and yet there's, you know, there
is, there's still that pettyplace in all of us that
sometimes we like to hold on tothings.
And so the good thing that theLord is giving us is too
overwhelming because we'reunwilling to let go of things
that we are holding so closethat we prefer.
We sometimes we prefer thebitterness, sometimes we prefer
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the anger.
And the Lord wants us toexchange those things um in
obedience and also because whathe gives us is so much better.
The other thing, too, is youknow, the Lord is not giving us
honey to keep us on a leash,right?
It's not, it's not the cheeseand the trap.
You know, honey so beautifully,the the sweetness of the Lord,
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his kindness, his goodness, hislove, his grace, his mercy,
these things so beautifully gildin the best way of that word the
bitterness of life, thedifficulty of disappointment.
And it also heightens the beautyof joy, the the successes and
and the the happiness of thingsthat he gives us.
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And it eases the horror ofgrief.
And again, these things are onlyfound in him.
They are only found in himbecause Jesus himself is the
honey in the rock, he's the rockand he is the honey in it.
And I think it's so tempting tofall back into places where we
just want a quick fix, we wantor we want things to go away
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quickly because it's so hard andit hurts and it's difficult, and
and so many times Jesus doesn'tdo that.
He keeps us where he has us, andyet, as Isaiah said, you know,
he makes the wilderness likeEden.
Why does the wilderness becomelike Eden?
Why does the honey taste sosweet?
Eden was what it was.
Yes, it was paradise, and it wascreated with all sorts of
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beautiful things, but everysingle thing created in that
garden, including and especiallyAdam and Eve, were the
reflection of the character ofGod.
Eden is only Eden because theLord is there.
We can't have Eden, we can'thave goodness, we can't have
honey if it's not from the Lord.
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And he's not a happy pill, he'snot a magician with a wand to
just swipe it over things andmake them better, but he is our
sustenance, he is the joy of oursalvation, he is the light in
our darkness and the hope in ourgrief and the comfort in our
depression.
He is all of those things andhow how those things come to
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fruition look different for allof us.
But the truth of who he isdoesn't change.
And and one thing I've reallylearned over the last few years
is is for so many years I had instudying this and in and in
trying to really um you knowlearn from the Lord and just you
know, and and honestly,sometimes just being like, why
are you doing this to me?
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Um, you know, when I go to theword looking for what the Lord
is saying to me or about me,right?
That's I I've you read we have atendency to fall into a place
where we read the Bible as ifit's about us.
And guess what?
It is not.
And, you know, we we and theLord wants us to come to his
word.
Whatever disposition we come toin his word, if we are actually
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looking for him and seeking himand believing him, that he will
be found if we diligently seekhim, uh, he will change us and
he will shape us.
Sometimes he will pierce us withthat sharp two-edged sword, no
doubt.
And other times it will be, youknow, the wine and the oil that
the good Samaritan used to cleanthe wounds of the person who um
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he finds on the side of theroad, the neighbor that he finds
on the side of the road.
Um, but one thing the Lord isreally teaching me and reminding
me of is to stop going to theword and expecting him to speak
to me about me first.
This and this is really the cruxof what I want this podcast to
be.
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I want us to, I want me tochange how I read the word and
go into it first with Lord, whatare you trying to teach me about
you?
The whole word is about Jesus.
It's all about Jesus.
And so when I'm going to, nomatter what I'm going through in
life, I need to go to the wordand ask the Holy Spirit and seek
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the Father to say, Lord, this iswhere I am, and you know where I
am.
You know how hard this is.
And I'm gonna be honest withyou.
I'm gonna I'm probably gonnascream and cry.
I mean, I want to be reverent,but the Lord can handle my
tears.
If he can handle all of Job'sraging, which praise the Lord
for the book of Job, can we canwe take a minute and say
hallelujah and amen for the bookof Job?
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But if we can be in, you know,and and cry and question and and
you know, and and and go to theLord with every disappointment
and every frustration, but in itbe be willing to wait and see
how he responds to us, numberone, but what he is showing us
about himself, that's the wholepoint.
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That's the whole point.
And and I don't know about you,I I know a lot of friends and
family we've talked about this.
You know, we can fall into adisposition where hard things
happen, and there is thattemptation to go, why are you
doing this to me?
You know, what have I done?
And and Job says that to theLord, you know, he questions it.
Job didn't have the privilegethat we have in reading that
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book to see the devil going tothe Lord and being like, You
take everything from that manand he is gonna reject you and
he's gonna curse you.
Job just sat there with hishorrible boils and friends who
looked like friends but wereactually enemies.
And then a young friend who cameand boldly spoke the word of the
Lord.
And when the Lord finally showedup, yeah, you know, he goes
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after Job.
He does.
He, you know, dress dressed likea man.
I want you to tell me whatyou've done, right?
And yet the Lord never rejectsJob.
The Lord doesn't say to Job,like what he said to his
friends, you know, those three,he says, You better go ask Job
to make a sacrifice for you,because I am done with you.
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And and this whole reflection isactually something that I heard
from Tim Keller.
Um, why was Job accepted and notrejected at the end?
And his three friends were like,You are on my list from the
Lord.
And it's because everything thatJob said and did, even though he
was in so much pain and just soraw and honest with the Lord, he
said it in prayer.
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He always went to the Lord.
And so I say all of that to sayit's not that we can't go to the
Lord and not be frustrated orexperiencing things and not
understand, but we need to keepour heart posture, our life
posture, one of reverence inthat Lord, I'm gonna dump these
things on you because you tellme I can cast every care on you.
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And I also need to be willing tosee, Lord Jesus, when I'm
reading this word, what are youshowing me about your character?
Because what I can see is makingme question and doubt, it's
making me cry.
I'm struggling.
I hate this, I hate it and Iwant it to go away because it's
crushing my soul.
And yet when I come to yourword, show me, Lord, show me who
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you are again and again so thatI am not looking at what I see,
but I'm looking at you.
Even though I can't see you, Iknow you and I love you, as John
says in 1 John.
So that's really the heart ofthis podcast is going in
together and getting honey inthe rock, being in Jesus and
seeing where, where his goodnesscomes in the midst of struggle
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and difficulty.
Because when we put ourselves inthat posture, we're honest
before the Lord, we give himeverything.
He sees all of it anyway.
I mean, when we're sharing thosethings and our frustration and
our anger and our grief and ourdepression, our joy, our
happiness, our indult, all ofit.
He already knows.
He already knows.
Many times I find thoseexperiences of crying out to the
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Lord that way are because Iactually don't really know how I
feel, and the Lord wants to showme where he's dealing with me.
Um, so yeah, that's that was areally long kind of explanation,
but that's where this allstarted and and I've kind of
landed where where I want to gomoving forward and talk about
things.
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You know, find honey in therock, find honey in the
scripture scripture becausehoney in the rock is the
reflection and it is thecharacter, it is the person of
Jesus Christ.
And so I want to encourage youwith that, no matter what you
are going through.
Jesus Christ wants to revealhimself to you.
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He wants to give you honey fromhis rock, from the rock that he
is.
He wants to show himself to youwhere you are, and he wants you
to come to know him.
He wants you to uh absolutely beready.
Wrapped in his arms.
He wants to free you from thethings that bind you.
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He wants to deliver you fromEgypt.
He wants to bring you out ofcaptivity into his land flowing
with milk and honey.
And he wants you to walk innewness of life.
Old things passed away, risingand walking in newness of life,
walking in his joy, walking inhis goodness, learning the good
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discipline that he gives us as afather, being thankful for the
gift of repentance, learningagain and again and again what
it means to be washed in theperfection of his blood, that he
really did finish the work ofcleansing us from our sin.
And when we come to him inrepentance, his blood is
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powerful and effectual tocleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
And then on top of it, what ablessing it is to be in
Christian community.
What a blessing it is to be inthe church.
And so that's really what thispodcast is about.
I hope you will join me everyweek for an exploration of
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scripture to know Jesus betterand to find honey in the rock.
I love it.
And now I want to bless you.
And this is from Jude 1, andthis is one of my favorite
verses in scripture.
And I pray that as we go awaytoday, that the Lord will keep
this in the forefront becausethis is who he is.
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Jude 124.
Now to him who is able toprotect you from stumbling and
to make you stand in thepresence of his glory, blameless
with great joy, to the only Godand our Savior, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, be glory,majesty, dominion, and authority
before all time, and now andforever.
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Amen.
Hey everyone, welcome to the inaugural episode
of Honey from the Rock.
My name is Carrie, and I am yourhost of this brand new podcast.
I am so happy you're here.
I'm also a little bit nervous,if I'm being honest.
Um, this is something I havedreamed about doing for the last
14 years.
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A podcast about my walk with theLord, sharing what Jesus has
taught me about who he is, abouthis word, um, learning how the
Father is a good father and howthe Holy Spirit is our leader.
He is the spirit of truth wholeads us into all truth.
And now to be here to hit recordtoday and share the heart behind
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why I'm starting this podcast ishuge.
It's huge.
So if you hear me nervous laughthroughout this podcast, I'm
just gonna tell you I'm notgonna edit it out because I am
also learning through this wholeprocess about presence over
perfection and really not tryingto work something to death until
I feel like it's perfect.
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Because guess what?
It's never going to be.
So I hope that you enjoy thisepisode.
I also hope that you willsubscribe and join me every week
as we dig into the word, as wesearch for the honey in the
cleft of the rock, as we talkabout ways that Jesus has given
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us honey in the midst ofdarkness and difficulty and
grief and disappointment, andalso how he's given us honey in
life's amazing moments.
And sometimes it will just be metalking, other times I will
bring friends and even family onhere because I think it's
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important to not just hear myvoice, but also to hear from the
people that the Lord has broughtinto my life that have shaped my
experiences, that have taught meso much about following the
Lord, about what it looks liketo be a faithful disciple of
Jesus.
And I want you to learn fromtheir collective wisdom and
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witness as well.
So I'm so excited to launch thispodcast.
But before I get into the restof that, whatever that is, I
guess, I want to share really myheart behind why honey from the
rock is so important to me.
So this the last six years havebeen difficult to say the least.
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There's been a lot.
And and individually for me andmy family, we've we've suffered
a lot of loss, which I will talkabout.
But also, you think about thelast five or six years, you
think about COVID and lockdownsand just being alone and and
then just all sorts of things inour country and and gosh, it's
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just been unsettling.
And I know I've seen I've I'veseen a lot of things online and
I've talked to a lot of peoplein my life about really feeling
sometimes that thatunsettledness about what does
our future look like?
Where are we going?
What's what's happening?
And just the consistent reminderthat our future may be uncertain
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and and the things that arehappening may be uncertain.
But Jesus is the constant.
He is faithful, he is with us.
He said he would never leave usor forsake us.
And he means that when life isgood and we're on the
mountaintop, and he definitelymeans that when we are in the
valley and life is difficult andit is hard and it is bitter and
it is grievous.
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And it's in those times wherethe Lord's honey has been so
sweet and so good to me.
And this year uh, again, hasbeen particularly difficult.
Um, and I found a song by BrookeLighterwood and Brandon Lake
called Honey in the Rock.
I love this song.
It has become one of my anthemworship songs because I love
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that it is a powerfuldeclaration that even though I'm
in the wilderness and it issandy and it is hot and it is
gross and I am sweating and it'sthe worst, that the Lord
provides.
He provides manna, he providesmercy, um, he provides shelter
because that is who he is.
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And many times it's it's hardfor us to see those things when
we're right in the middle ofthem for a lot of different
reasons.
But there are so many times wecan look back and say, man,
Lord, that honey that you gaveme was amazing.
And so I heard this song, I'vebeen singing it full blast.
I love it's a foot stomper.
I love playing it in my car withthe windows down.
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Uh, but then I started to gointo scripture and said, you
know what, Lord, I want to knowmore about what you say about
honey.
Obviously, it's something toeat, but I want to know its
spiritual implications.
I want to know um what youreally say about it.
And so, as faithful as the Lordis, he led me to Psalm 81, 16,
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which is literally where hesays, But I would feed you with
the finest of wheat, and withhoney from the rock, I would
satisfy you.
Now, I know you notice that whenuh the Lord is talking here, he
is saying, I would feed you withhoney from the rock, I would
satisfy you.
So why is the Lord talking likethis?
Well, Psalm 81 is written byAesaph, which uh he was one of
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David's chief uh songwriters.
He was a prophet.
Uh, he wrote Psalm 73, um, whichmany people know um because it
has the verse, who on earth umwould I delight in beside you?
You know, who on earth earthwould I want as a companion
beside you, Lord?
Um, just amazing the words thatthe Holy Spirit gave this man.
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And this psalm is no different.
Asaf wrote 11 psalms, um, andthis is one of one of them.
And he starts out this song withworship, you know, sing to the
Lord, worship with joy, all ofthese things.
And then he goes back, as somany writers in the Old
Testament do, uh, goes back andsays to Israel, remember what
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the Lord has pulled you out of.
Remember his deliverance fromEgypt.
And in the the cry to rememberwhat the Lord has delivered them
from, the Lord then throughAesaph laments about Israel's
forsaking him.
So I want to read uh verses 11through 16, but I really
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encourage you to go and read thewhole Psalm because it is
amazing.
And I'm reading out of the ESV.
So uh Psalm 81, verses 11through 16 says, But my people
did not listen to my voice, andIsrael did not obey me.
So I gave them over to thestubbornness of their heart to
walk by their own plans.
Oh, that my people would listento me, that Israel would walk in
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my ways, I would quickly subduetheir enemies, and turn my hand
against their adversaries.
Those who hate the Lord wouldpretend to obey him, and the
time of their punishment wouldbe forever.
But I would feed you, the Lordis saying, I would feed you with
the finest of wheat, and withhoney from the rock I would
satisfy you.
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I love this section of theverses so much because you can
hear the plaintive cry of theLord, if I can say it like that.
There is there is a yearning inthe Lord for his people to come
back to him, right?
He wants them to listen to him,he wants them to obey him
because he knows his way is thebest.
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Even though, as Jesus tells us,it's narrow, it's difficult, it
is still the best.
To listen to the Lord and followhim in his way is what brings us
honey from the rock.
It's what brings us wheat thatmakes good bread, you know, when
you're not counting carbs.
Um, but it's it's what brings usthis beautiful walk with the
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Lord, even in the midst ofincredible difficulty.
And that's it's what the Lorddesires to do for those who walk
in his ways.
And that's so important.
We can't get honey from the Lordif we're separate from him.
We can't.
And I can tell you from my ownexperience, things that I have
done in my life, ways I havesinned against the Lord, things
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that I have struggled in, andthen been like, why are these
things happening to me?
Why is this so hard?
Well, guess what?
Some of it is the consequence ofyour own rebellion, Carrie.
How about that?
Right?
And so it's it's learning thatthe Lord desires for us to know
him.
He wants us to walk with him, hewants us to be with him, and he
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wants to be with us.
There is no honey to be found inlife's burdens and life's
difficulties without Jesus.
It's why he says, Come to me,all of you who are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest, learnof me, take my yoke upon you.
That's where the sweetness is,right?
That's where the honey is firstand foremost.
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It's in putting on the yoke ofJesus, walking with him, being
with him, learning of him,resting in him, so that when
life's hard things come, whendevastation and grief and
tragedy and trauma and thingscome to us, we know who we can
run to.
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And so I just want to encourageyou with that.
You know, if we want honey fromthe rock, we want the bread,
that amazing wheat of the Lordthat Jesus is the bread of life,
we've got to be in him.
And that was something the Lordreally hit me with when I was
digging into this scripturebecause I wanted to know, you
know, obviously honey is honey.
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But, you know, as witheverything in scripture, honey
also symbolizes things.
And so when I was doing someresearch, I use Biblehub.com.
That's not an advertisement,that's just me talking about how
much I love Biblehub.com.
It's free.
Um, has lots of greatcommentaries, lexicon, lexicons,
um, dictionaries, all of thatkind of stuff on it.
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So I was doing some research,research digging into the word
honey.
And so according to Brown DriverBriggs lexicon, this honey,
which just means honey, in inPsalm 81, it is honey in the
rock.
And that's what I was sayingearlier.
Is this rock, this honey can'tbe found in the rock unless
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you're in the rock, right?
Because Jesus is our rock.
Uh, and then they have a reallygreat topical lexicon on Bible
Hub as well.
And it so it talks about honey,and honey, whether it is
obtained from wild bees,domesticated hives, um, or
produced from date nectar.
Those were the different kindsof honey um referenced in the
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Old Testament.
But throughout the OldTestament, it functions both as
a literal foodstuff and a richsymbol of covenant blessing,
delight, and spiritualsweetness.
So then I kept looking anddigging in, and there are a lot
of references to honey in theOld Testament, but I pulled out
just a few uh so we can see howit's used in scripture.
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So, first and foremost, ifyou've watched Veggie Tales or
you've read um the Pentateuch,you've read Exodus, you see or
Genesis, you see over and overagain the Lord promises to lead
Israel out of Egypt into a landflowing with milk and honey.
Uh, he says it again and againand again.
Mana that the Lord provided forthe people, uh, Scripture says
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was like coriander seed, white,and its taste was like wafers
with honey.
Uh, Samson, you know, Samson,you know, for all of his
foilables and sin and hisrebellion, the Lord used his
strengths to do some incrediblethings.
He kills that lion, he goes onhis merry way.
A week later he comes back, andwhat's coming out of this lion
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is honey.
Bees have taken residence there,and there is honey.
And he goes in and he dips hishand.
He goes back to the carcass ofthe enemy that he conquered and
he takes honey from it invictory.
I love it.
Um, Proverbs tells us not tooverindulge in honey lest it
makes us sick.
Both Ezekiel and John, so Oldand New Testament here, Ezekiel
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the prophet, and John theapostle were told to eat the
word and that it would tastelike honey in their mouths.
And John was told that it wouldbe honey, it'd be sweet in his
mouth, but it would be bitter inhis stomach.
And then the other thing that Ithought was so cool was that it
was a part of John the Baptist'sdiet.
Uh, he was a prophet.
We know that John was in thewilderness until he was launched
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onto the national stage beforeuh Jesus came and made himself
public as well.
And scripture tells us that Johnwore camel hair and he ate
locusts and he ate honey.
And that really stuck out to mebecause we see throughout
scripture that the prophet'slife can is is bitter.
There is a lot of bitternessbecause the prophet was often
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called and still is today, stillis today, called to speak, yes,
edification, yes, um, all sortsof things, but but to speak the
mind of the Lord in discernmentto people, to sound the alarm.
So many prophets in the OldTestament had to bring hard
words.
But what did they also bring?
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There was always hope in theword that they brought.
There was always honey, thathope oracle.
Here is what I'm gonna do to youif you don't repent.
But if you repent, here's what Iwill do.
Or even you're gonna go intocaptivity.
You've passed the point whereyour repentance is going to be
able to change what's going on.
But even though you're goinginto captivity, when I bring you
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out, it's like the Lord sayingthis through Jeremiah, I will
bring you back, I will bring youback to the land.
There will be a remnant, therewill be a shoot that comes up
from the stump, all of thosethings, and that's honey.
And that the Lord let John eathoney in the wilderness to
sweeten the difficulty of thewilderness, I think is amazing.
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And then the other thing that isreally cool is in Luke 24, 42,
and it's a footnote, but I thinkit's really important to note
that Jesus is on the shore andhe's, you know, he's built that
fire, like John tells us.
And the disciples offer him apiece of broiled fish and some
honeycomb.
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And uh the topical lexicon saysthis validates material
resurrection and celebratingcovenant sweetness fulfilled.
And I love that so much.
Again, proving Jesus wasresurrected in body, he ate
things, he had to digest it.
Uh, but there was there was thesweetness he had just endured,
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the most horrific thing that hasever happened ever in the
history of man, the horrificnessof his crucifixion, the perfect
God man on the cross, whippedand bloody and bruised for our
transgressions, buried and onthe third day, risen by the
power of the Holy Spirit,sitting with his disciples,
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partaking in a meal, eating thefish and eating the honey.
There is the sweetness that thatwhat he has done is it is
finished.
And I and I love it, I love itso much.
But in the midst of all of this,what hit me is, you know, for a
lot of us, life doesn't feelthis way, right?
There's there it feels likethere's so much bitterness or
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disappointment or unfulfilleddreams or grief and sorrow and
depression that we all strugglewith, if we're honest, we all
struggle with it.
And sometimes it's day-to-day,sometimes it's just a season.
Um, but we're all dealing withsomething.
And there are times when it is agreat season.
But I know for a lot of people,there are times that just are
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hard and they feel likeprolonged seasons of difficulty.
And it's part of the reason whyI wanted to start this podcast
because this isn't about beingPollyanna, it's not about
ignoring the difficulty of thethings that we experience and
the hardness of grief ordisappointment or betrayal or
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trauma.
It's not just always trying tolook on the bright side.
Um, what I want to share on thispodcast, and I know the people
who all I will bring on it, itthe things that we've learned
have come out of the dark placesin life.
You know, I can tell you of somany times where I have laid on
the floor with not-filled tearsof grief, asking Jesus why he's
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letting me go through somethingso difficult and heartbreaking.
And again, sometimes at my ownhand, reaping the consequences
of my own sin.
Sometimes it's the afflictionand the suffering that the Lord
appoints.
Sometimes I don't know why.
But I've cried out to the Lordand I'm asking him for his
leading.
You know, there's there's beendays where I have felt so numb
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and like just don't care aboutanything, or I've been so angry,
or I've been so happy and fullof joy and laughter, or full of
grief and hurt and depression.
It's the human experience,right?
And in those really difficulttimes, what I have learned is
that Jesus hasn't given me honeyto assuage me like that um
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temper tantrum throwing child inthe grocery store, right?
Who's screaming for candy.
As a literal real life example,my mom and I just and my
brother, we were at the Omahazoo here a week ago, and there
was this just child losing hismind because he wanted candy.
And kudos to the dad.
He he didn't just try and shuthim up.
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He was trying to explain to himwhy he couldn't have it.
And I know that dad was soembarrassed because that kid was
loud.
And that's how we can besometimes with the Lord, right?
We are crying and we are loud,and and the Lord's not then just
throwing us sweetness or honeyto shut us up, right?
No, he is giving us honeybecause he wants us to know him.
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And and his honey, the the thesweetness, those glimpses of
comfort and kindness and andbeing held by him, ministry from
his people in his word, thosethings have sustained me.
They've given me new life when Ifelt like I couldn't keep going.
Um, he's also given me honeythat's tasted like dessert,
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right?
You know, you get dessert andit's the oh, it's so good, and
it's at the end of a really goodmeal.
And other times it's tasted likehope, like good things are
coming, and that's actually theseason that I'm in right now is
a lot of grief and a lot ofdifficulty and just processing a
lot of hard things.
But I have this intense sense ofhope and that the Lord has good
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things coming for me.
The Lord has good things comingfor the people I love and the
people I care about.
And so the other thing that I'velearned um in life is that you
know, we can't appreciate honeyuh if we eat it all the time.
But in our society, we consumeso much fake sweetness, right?
So much, I mean, you there's thepink packet, the blue packet,
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the yellow packet, there's rawsugar, there's stevia, there's
you know, monk fruit, there'sall sorts of sweetness that we
can add.
And what I think we've alllearned from time to time, if we
consume too much fakeness, toomuch fake sweetness, when we go
to eat the real thing, then allof a sudden it's not sweet
enough because all we've done isconsume empty counterfeits,
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right?
And so we we then we eat thereal thing and we're like, well,
this doesn't taste really good.
It doesn't satisfy us the waythat it should.
We reject it because we'vefilled ourselves with so much
empty junk, right?
And then there's the there's theopposite, and I'm using, you
know, diet examples because, youknow, honey is actually real.
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Um, and and there's there's thediet of like, you know, all
meat, no fun, all plants, nojoy, right?
You know, where you're just sorestricted on what you can, and
hey, it works for some people,I'm not knocking anything.
But follow me here because whenwe then cut everything out
that's sweet in that way, all ofa sudden, if we taste something
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sweet, it can feel like it's toomuch.
It overwhelms our palate.
And sometimes in life I havefound when I've been in the
depth of grief and the Lord doessomething good for me, he does
something kind for me, it almostfeels like it's too much.
And honestly, sometimes whenI've been working through
something, whether it's anger orforgiveness or bitterness or
whatever it is, and I know, Iknow the Lord is telling me to
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let it go.
And I'm fighting and I want to,and yet there's, you know, there
is, there's still that pettyplace in all of us that
sometimes we like to hold on tothings.
And so the good thing that theLord is giving us is too
overwhelming because we'reunwilling to let go of things
that we are holding so closethat we prefer.
We sometimes we prefer thebitterness, sometimes we prefer
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the anger.
And the Lord wants us toexchange those things um in
obedience and also because whathe gives us is so much better.
The other thing, too, is youknow, the Lord is not giving us
honey to keep us on a leash,right?
It's not, it's not the cheeseand the trap.
You know, honey so beautifully,the the sweetness of the Lord,
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his kindness, his goodness, hislove, his grace, his mercy,
these things so beautifully gildin the best way of that word the
bitterness of life, thedifficulty of disappointment.
And it also heightens the beautyof joy, the the successes and
and the the happiness of thingsthat he gives us.
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And it eases the horror ofgrief.
And again, these things are onlyfound in him.
They are only found in himbecause Jesus himself is the
honey in the rock, he's the rockand he is the honey in it.
And I think it's so tempting tofall back into places where we
just want a quick fix, we wantor we want things to go away
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quickly because it's so hard andit hurts and it's difficult, and
and so many times Jesus doesn'tdo that.
He keeps us where he has us, andyet, as Isaiah said, you know,
he makes the wilderness likeEden.
Why does the wilderness becomelike Eden?
Why does the honey taste sosweet?
Eden was what it was.
Yes, it was paradise, and it wascreated with all sorts of
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beautiful things, but everysingle thing created in that
garden, including and especiallyAdam and Eve, were the
reflection of the character ofGod.
Eden is only Eden because theLord is there.
We can't have Eden, we can'thave goodness, we can't have
honey if it's not from the Lord.
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And he's not a happy pill, he'snot a magician with a wand to
just swipe it over things andmake them better, but he is our
sustenance, he is the joy of oursalvation, he is the light in
our darkness and the hope in ourgrief and the comfort in our
depression.
He is all of those things andhow how those things come to
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fruition look different for allof us.
But the truth of who he isdoesn't change.
And and one thing I've reallylearned over the last few years
is is for so many years I had instudying this and in and in
trying to really um you knowlearn from the Lord and just you
know, and and honestly,sometimes just being like, why
are you doing this to me?
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Um, you know, when I go to theword looking for what the Lord
is saying to me or about me,right?
That's I I've you read we have atendency to fall into a place
where we read the Bible as ifit's about us.
And guess what?
It is not.
And, you know, we we and theLord wants us to come to his
word.
Whatever disposition we come toin his word, if we are actually
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looking for him and seeking himand believing him, that he will
be found if we diligently seekhim, uh, he will change us and
he will shape us.
Sometimes he will pierce us withthat sharp two-edged sword, no
doubt.
And other times it will be, youknow, the wine and the oil that
the good Samaritan used to cleanthe wounds of the person who um
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he finds on the side of theroad, the neighbor that he finds
on the side of the road.
Um, but one thing the Lord isreally teaching me and reminding
me of is to stop going to theword and expecting him to speak
to me about me first.
This and this is really the cruxof what I want this podcast to
be.
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I want us to, I want me tochange how I read the word and
go into it first with Lord, whatare you trying to teach me about
you?
The whole word is about Jesus.
It's all about Jesus.
And so when I'm going to, nomatter what I'm going through in
life, I need to go to the wordand ask the Holy Spirit and seek
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the Father to say, Lord, this iswhere I am, and you know where I
am.
You know how hard this is.
And I'm gonna be honest withyou.
I'm gonna I'm probably gonnascream and cry.
I mean, I want to be reverent,but the Lord can handle my
tears.
If he can handle all of Job'sraging, which praise the Lord
for the book of Job, can we canwe take a minute and say
hallelujah and amen for the bookof Job?
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But if we can be in, you know,and and cry and question and and
you know, and and and go to theLord with every disappointment
and every frustration, but in itbe be willing to wait and see
how he responds to us, numberone, but what he is showing us
about himself, that's the wholepoint.
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That's the whole point.
And and I don't know about you,I I know a lot of friends and
family we've talked about this.
You know, we can fall into adisposition where hard things
happen, and there is thattemptation to go, why are you
doing this to me?
You know, what have I done?
And and Job says that to theLord, you know, he questions it.
Job didn't have the privilegethat we have in reading that
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book to see the devil going tothe Lord and being like, You
take everything from that manand he is gonna reject you and
he's gonna curse you.
Job just sat there with hishorrible boils and friends who
looked like friends but wereactually enemies.
And then a young friend who cameand boldly spoke the word of the
Lord.
And when the Lord finally showedup, yeah, you know, he goes
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after Job.
He does.
He, you know, dress dressed likea man.
I want you to tell me whatyou've done, right?
And yet the Lord never rejectsJob.
The Lord doesn't say to Job,like what he said to his
friends, you know, those three,he says, You better go ask Job
to make a sacrifice for you,because I am done with you.
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And and this whole reflection isactually something that I heard
from Tim Keller.
Um, why was Job accepted and notrejected at the end?
And his three friends were like,You are on my list from the
Lord.
And it's because everything thatJob said and did, even though he
was in so much pain and just soraw and honest with the Lord, he
said it in prayer.
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He always went to the Lord.
And so I say all of that to sayit's not that we can't go to the
Lord and not be frustrated orexperiencing things and not
understand, but we need to keepour heart posture, our life
posture, one of reverence inthat Lord, I'm gonna dump these
things on you because you tellme I can cast every care on you.
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And I also need to be willing tosee, Lord Jesus, when I'm
reading this word, what are youshowing me about your character?
Because what I can see is makingme question and doubt, it's
making me cry.
I'm struggling.
I hate this, I hate it and Iwant it to go away because it's
crushing my soul.
And yet when I come to yourword, show me, Lord, show me who
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you are again and again so thatI am not looking at what I see,
but I'm looking at you.
Even though I can't see you, Iknow you and I love you, as John
says in 1 John.
So that's really the heart ofthis podcast is going in
together and getting honey inthe rock, being in Jesus and
seeing where, where his goodnesscomes in the midst of struggle
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and difficulty.
Because when we put ourselves inthat posture, we're honest
before the Lord, we give himeverything.
He sees all of it anyway.
I mean, when we're sharing thosethings and our frustration and
our anger and our grief and ourdepression, our joy, our
happiness, our indult, all ofit.
He already knows.
He already knows.
Many times I find thoseexperiences of crying out to the
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Lord that way are because Iactually don't really know how I
feel, and the Lord wants to showme where he's dealing with me.
Um, so yeah, that's that was areally long kind of explanation,
but that's where this allstarted and and I've kind of
landed where where I want to gomoving forward and talk about
things.
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You know, find honey in therock, find honey in the
scripture scripture becausehoney in the rock is the
reflection and it is thecharacter, it is the person of
Jesus Christ.
And so I want to encourage youwith that, no matter what you
are going through.
Jesus Christ wants to revealhimself to you.
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He wants to give you honey fromhis rock, from the rock that he
is.
He wants to show himself to youwhere you are, and he wants you
to come to know him.
He wants you to uh absolutely beready.
Wrapped in his arms.
He wants to free you from thethings that bind you.
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He wants to deliver you fromEgypt.
He wants to bring you out ofcaptivity into his land flowing
with milk and honey.
And he wants you to walk innewness of life.
Old things passed away, risingand walking in newness of life,
walking in his joy, walking inhis goodness, learning the good
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discipline that he gives us as afather, being thankful for the
gift of repentance, learningagain and again and again what
it means to be washed in theperfection of his blood, that he
really did finish the work ofcleansing us from our sin.
And when we come to him inrepentance, his blood is
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powerful and effectual tocleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
And then on top of it, what ablessing it is to be in
Christian community.
What a blessing it is to be inthe church.
And so that's really what thispodcast is about.
I hope you will join me everyweek for an exploration of
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scripture to know Jesus betterand to find honey in the rock.
I love it.
And now I want to bless you.
And this is from Jude 1, andthis is one of my favorite
verses in scripture.
And I pray that as we go awaytoday, that the Lord will keep
this in the forefront becausethis is who he is.
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Jude 124.
Now to him who is able toprotect you from stumbling and
to make you stand in thepresence of his glory, blameless
with great joy, to the only Godand our Savior, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, be glory,majesty, dominion, and authority
before all time, and now andforever.
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Amen.
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