Psalm 81 starts with that

Psalm 81 starts with that funky joyful outburst-it is to celebrate the fact that God delivered everybody; then it goes to their wilderness period, wherein they wouldn’t let Him repattern them, so He judges them-none of those guys got to enter (but a few spies). Then it ends with what He would’ve given them-honey from the rock.

He wants to give us honey and fine wine, but we got to let His Voice cast out the ways of foreign gods-the foreign gods ways are the patterns which got internalized when we were under.

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