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NCE again, we must carry a
thought over from a previous chapter. In Ezekiel's vision, a divine hand
brought him a book (that is, a roll... or a scroll), and he was instructed to
eat it. Now, here in chapter 3, we find
that as he ate it, it was sweet to the taste.
This is significant because he had seen already that the book contained "lamentations, mourning and woe" (Ezekiel
2:10). How could it be sweet?
The scroll, which Ezekiel was
required to eat must have surely represented all of the words that he was going
to have to speak to the Jewish POWs among whom he lived. Perhaps the sweetness
represented the joy of knowing God and of knowing His thoughts. Even when God's
thoughts and words include insurmountable and incomprehensible realities (as
divine thoughts inevitably do), we - who are not only made in His image, but
who are also His children - have in us a specifically designed hunger that is
perfectly satisfied with a continual tasting of God's goodness. And by the way,
God's judgment is an expression of His goodness. To be good, one must be willing to put away
evil. God is most certainly doing that.
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