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Truth: Bitter or Sweet? Bible in a Year: Isaiah 50–52 1 Thessalonians 5 So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. Ezekiel 3:3 Ezekiel 2:4–3:3 I’d had the spot on my nose for the better part of a year when I went to the doctor. The biopsy results came back days later with words I didn’t want to hear: skin cancer. Though the cancer was operable and not life-threatening, it was a bitter pill to swallow. God commanded Ezekiel to swallow a bitter pill—a scroll containing words of lament and woe (Ezekiel 2:; 3:1–2). He was “to fill [his] stomach with it” and share the words with the people of Israel, whom God considered “obstinate and stubborn” (2:4). One would expect a scroll filled with correction to taste like a bitter pill. Yet Ezekiel describes it being “as sweet as honey” in his mouth (3:3). Ezekiel seems to have acquired a taste for God’s correction. Instead of viewing His rebuke as something to avoid, Ezekiel recognized that what is good for the soul is “sweet.” God instructs and corrects us with lovingkindness, helping us live in a way that honors and pleases Him. Some truths are bitter pills to swallow while others taste sweet. If we remember how much God loves us, His truth will taste more like honey. His words are given to us for our good, providing wisdom and strength to forgive others, refrain from gossip, and bear up under mistreatment. Help us, God, to recognize Your wisdom as the sweet counsel it truly is! Reflect & Pray What truth has God shown you recently? Did you receive it as a bitter pill or sweet honey? God, Your truth is sweet. 
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Lately, I have found God's corrections in my life to be more of a gentle leading, and often one that I asked Him to do. I can remember a time when I needed to make a major correction in my life, and it would mean giving up a lifestyle and the friends in it........... but much to my joy, it was only the lifestyle that changed, God brought the friends right along with me. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Right now, I am dealing with bitter pills but I am asking God to help me deal with it graciously. Abracadabra 
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