I Did Eat Them

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. Found, as in come across. Eaten, which is what Ezekiel was told to do with a scroll: eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. Two verses further on, Jeremiah is saying this: why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? The joy and the accusation are one paragraph apart, in one man, on one page.

Words you found and did not make. An appetite for them on the day they are the only sweet thing in the house. Your joy and your accusation kept together in the same book, the way his were kept. And the name you are called by, holding when nothing else you are holding does.

Daily Manna runs on a two-year cycle. The year one reading for day 261 is Called to Inherit Blessing (1 Peter 3:9).

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