If eating a scroll isn't your sort of thing, how about a taste of Bible bar?!
Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. Ezekiel 3:3
Ezekiel strikes me as this wild-eyed mystic/seer/prophet. His visions feel hallucinogenic. Seems like he would have fit right in in the '60s Wonder what he was like? Of the royal priest lineage become a prophet for the people in exile. God calls Ezekiel at 30 and starts his mission by giving him a taste of His word. Jesus would remark later to the devil that man lives not on bread alone but on the word of God. We take the word into our mouths in symbolic fashion when we take the bread, Christ's body, as part of communion.
Ezekiel eats the scroll. It's almost a comic image. And, he's surprised. This isn't half bad. Actually, its very, very good. The word of God is as sweet as honey. It's our true food, sustaining us, filling us, providing what we need to grow. Lord knows.
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