Psalms 81:16
"He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee."
This is what the Lord would have done if His people had listened to His voice. Implied here, of course, is complete obedience to His voice not just that they would hear it; the indication that one is listening to God is obedience to what He has said. If they had listened to His counsel He would have fed them with the finest of the wheat, and while this was certainly applicable to the original hearers of this verse what we want to gather is what does it mean for us today? It simply means that if we would hearken to His word He would feed us with the finest of His word, the bread of life. Obedience is the key element to the finest of the wheat, or good doctrine. There is such a thing as inferior wheat, the finest of the wheat implies that wheat is graded from fine to poor; obedience produces the finest wheat. Our spiritual standing and well being is dependent upon what we feed on.
I have often considered fellow believers who are content to feed upon the inferior wheat of Gods word (Teachers and leaders who are teaching a mixed message and others who omit part of the full counsel of God) and wondered, "How can they be content with an inferior word?" We want to be those who desire the finest of the wheat, the best of Gods Word and if we are to partake of this finest wheat then we must obey and walk in His counsels. The opposite of this is what the children of Israel actually experienced because of disobedience and we see this in verse twelve: Psa 81:12 KJV "So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels." They forfeited the finest of the wheat, His doctrine, for their own counsels (mans counsels are infinitely less than the counsel of the Lord contained in His word).
Then the Lord takes it to the next level when He says "And with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee" Honey speaks of revelation (Jonathan's eyes were opened when he ate the honey in the book of 1 Samuel). God gives revelation to those who are obedient to His word but notice this, it is not just revelation but it is revelation that satisfies our spirit. It brings joy and contentment to the heart and causes one to be greatly satisfied. This is a wonderful promise indeed but all of this was sacrificed because they did not hearken to the Almighty nor did they obey His voice. What a tragedy that we should hold to our own ways, that we should miss this blessing because of some part of our rebellious nature. Man is horribly insecure, he strives to fight and protect what is his own but Oh that we would freely give up what the Lord requires of us knowing that if we hearken to Him He will give us the finest of the wheat and the honey that satisfies. May God quicken these verses to us and give us a fresh zeal to obey, not as one who is coerced into doing what is right or else they are punished but as one who knows, who really knows the benefit of simple obedience, the finest of the wheat and to be satisfied by the honey from the rock.
