Have you ever eaten honeycomb? A friend of mine brought some to school once and shared it with our class. It’s considered a delicacy in many cultures, and although some prefer not to eat the beeswax, it is edible too, along with the honey. The honeycomb has a very unique texture and of course it’s dripping with the sweet flavor of honey. In Psalm 19, David compared the joys of knowing God’s words to the drippings of the honeycomb. He said, “The rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb” (Psalm 19:9b-11).

David was a man who loved God’s word. He not only read it and contemplated it but he also loved applying God’s word to the way he lived. To follow in David’s footsteps, we first need to spend time in God’s word. That is what our 2025 Bible reading plan is designed to do—give us some external accountability and guidance to help us have consistent time in God’s word each day. And if you’ve been following our Bible Reading plan that we began in January, congratulations! This week we will reach a milestone. We will finish Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. (Because there are more days in the year than chapters in the New Testament, we will spend the last few months of the year rereading select New Testament books while we finish reading the entire Old Testament in one year’s time.)

But if we want to follow in David’s example and delight in God’s word, then we need to go beyond just reading it. When we read God’s word prayerfully and meditate on it throughout the day, sharing it with others and trying to apply it to our own lives, then God opens up our hearts to delight in his law. “I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight” (Ps. 119:174). Ask God to open your heart to his word, not only to receive it, but to love it and to live it. By the power of his Spirit inside us, God writes his law on our hearts. Through the strength and comfort of the Spirit, we can learn to follow God with a full heart and with joyful obedience. This is the essence of relationship with God. And it all starts with reading and delighting in God’s word. God has given you his word. He invites you to open it, read it, delight in it, and ultimately to delight in God himself.