Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564. Prophet Ezekiel, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=49954 [retrieved August 10, 2015]. Original source: Wikimedia.
[Ezekiel says,] "Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. And he said to me, 'Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the house of Israel.' So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
"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 2:9-3:3)
Ezekiel may be able to speak "words of lament and mourning and woe" from the Lord, for the scroll upon which the words are written "taste as sweet as honey" to him.
Am I to delight in issuing a divine warning to others? Do God's words of warning, challenge, or judgment taste sweet when repeated?
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