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rock.

All right, let me ask the question. How much sweeter? Ten times? One
hundred times? You know, sometimes God’s will does not seem too
sweet. Like in Ezekiel when he had to eat that scroll and on both sides of
the scroll there was bad news. There was no good news, and God said
“eat it”. It is hard to swallow God’s will sometimes, and he could not do
it. So God helped him. He opened his mouth, and He fed him the scroll,
and he said when I ate it, it was as sweet as honey. If God ever hands
you a scroll from heaven and it has bad news on both sides and you
recoil and say, oh, I do not want to eat that, and it is tough to accept
God’s will, may I suggest when you eat that thing, it will be the sweetest
thing you have ever eaten. Sweeter than the sweetest honey, the
drippings of the honeycomb, honey in the rock.

You see, infinitely more precious than life is His loving kindness.
Infinitely whiter than snow He washes our hearts. Infinitely sweeter than
honey is His precious will and His precious Word. We have done three
of these little figures. There are hundreds in the Psalms. So consider
the lilies, consider the birds. When you read the Psalms, stop at these
figures and meditate on them. All right, let’s look at one more. This is
one of the favorite Psalms and oft quoted. Psalm 103:11 and 12,

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His
loving kindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is
from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth.” Think about it. How
high is that? “As far as the east is from the west.” How far is that?
This time the Holy Spirit selects the greatest measurement known to
man. The greatest vertical distance known to man is the heavens above
the earth. You could not get a greater vertical distance then that. I am
not a scientist but I read some very interesting things. Some of it just
staggers your mind like how fast light travels. One hundred and eighty-
six thousand miles per second. They say that at light speed, it would
take you four years to reach the nearest star. That is how high the
heavens are. Neptune is one our planets. We are ninety-three million
miles from the sun. Neptune is two billion seven hundred miles from the
sun, and is still in our solar system.

Six years ago they fixed the lens on the Hubble telescope, and I saw
pictures of what that thing is sending back. Billions and billions of
galaxies! It staggers your mind. When I read that I changed the Psalm a