TASTE and SEE that the LORD is GOOD!

Oh, the JOYS of those who TRUST in HIM.

(Psalm 34:8, NLT)

 

Did your breakfast taste good this morning?  No one else could taste exactly what you tasted except you.  And in the spiritual it’s no different. 

  • We can’t ‘taste’ the Lord with someone else’s tastebuds!

  • We can’t ‘taste’ God from a distance or by being sloppy in our approach.

  • We have to ‘taste’ the Lord ourselves to prove Him.

  • We can’t ‘see’ the Lord through the realm of the flesh.

  • We have to ‘see’ with our spiritual eyes to know that He is good.

To “taste and see” requires a very personal experience.  The Lord longs for us to have that intimate, personal experience with Him.  He takes great pleasure in us when we believe His Word and act upon it.  “How sweet are Your Words to my taste; they are sweeter than honey” (Psalm 119:103, NLT).

It’s so easy to ‘taste and see’ what the world has to offer us; the glitter and glamour can seem so attractive to our eye, but its value is pittance and its rewards are fleeting in comparison to the inner joy we experience as we trust in the One Who created us to have fellowship with Him.  When we “taste and see that the Lord is good,”  we are drawing from His Spirit to our spirit; it is a deep, spiritual relationship that feeds our inner man.  But when we ‘taste to see’ if the world is good, we are merely bouncing flesh off flesh, drawing from what our five natural senses tell us (sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste), comparing intellectual with intellectual, which, even at its best, offers no remedy or forgiveness for sin, no love from a Saviour, no help from a God Who knows us personally by name, and no hope for an eternal future with a Loving God.  Jesus said, “Your life is like the morning fog (a vapour) – it’s here a little while then it’s gone!”  (James 4:14, NLT).  The truth is that it’s according to how we live this life that determines where we will spend the next, so determine in your heart today to “taste and see (prove) that the Lord is good.”

  • What are you tasting today?

Is it the taste of the Saviour’s love?

Is it the sweet flavour of God’s Spirit at work in your life?

  • What are your eyes seeing today?

Are they focussed on the goodness of the Lord?

Are they seeing in the Spirit? 

  • Where is your level of joy today?

Is it centred on your trust in Him?

Is the joy of the Lord your strength? 

~ Joan Emery