Thursday, June 5, 2025

Thursday Devotional – Jesus is Worthy to Reveal the Sweet and Sour (6/5/25)

 My kids have dared each other to eat a Warheads sour candy! I didn’t join in the “fun.” I tried one about 30 years ago and never want another one! Sarah can withstand the extreme sour taste long enough to eventually get to the sweet taste, but other kids can’t (and me neither!).

Similar to the Warheads, John ate a sweet and sour scroll.

Revelation 10:8-11           Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’” 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

In reverse of the Warheads, John’s tasty scroll was first sweet and then sour. It may mean that the prophecy he was given to share includes sweet victory for Jesus’s followers, but bitter judgment for those who reject Jesus. The book of Revelation certainly includes both! Jesus gives John the good and bad news together. Which are you confident you will ultimately experience? Sweet victory in Jesus or sour separation from Him for all eternity?