O Taste and SEE That the LORD is Good!

Sometimes we have an idea that something we have never experienced or seen before must be either disgusting or just plain evil and scary. At best we might be just suspicious about the matter that we are looking at and dreaming up all sorts of horrors it might hold for us.

It's interesting to me that the LORD says: “O taste and see that the LORD is good” (Psalm‬ ‭xxxiv ‭8‬). It is said with something of an exclamation at the beginning, “O taste and see that the LORD is good”. It's like an invitation that you might give a child: “Come on … see … it's good”.

It is important for us to realise that the key to revelation in God is coming and tasting whatever it is He is offering us through His Word, by His Spirit. We taste, then we see.

Just think for a moment of something that you were a little concerned about in the past. Perhaps a food item. But … when you tasted it, unlike the child who does not like the taste of something initially, your tasting that thing had a surprising effect on your taste buds. It actually exploded with flavour. And not just any flavour, but a flavour that was new and … delicious.

The LORD is leading His children on a continual journey. And that means going from one stage to the next, one level to the next, from glory to glory, unto that Perfect Day, which also means facing that future ‘glory’ you have not yet experienced. ‘Tasted’, if you will. That thing might not look comfortable. It might even scare you. But when you taste that which the LORD is offering you, you will see that the LORD is good.

We have to, as it were, put aside, lay down all those distractions, all those things, those hindrances, those presuppositions we might have in order to be able to taste that which is good, things the LORD is offering us, but we do not know yet … until we taste them.

Because, by the way, the rest of our theme verse says, “Blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.” Hmm!

The Lord often speaks to us through our senses. And even the Bible says that the key to having our youth ‘renewed like the eagle’s’ involves taste. But that's another thought for another time. 😉