So, I just got an email from my brother-in-law about how he and my sister and their kids will be coming back to the states from Turkey because his father is not doing well. He has a tumor growing on his esophagus. He’s been on a feeding tube for a week because the tumor won’t allow him to swallow food or drink. In the email Christian mentioned something that struck me as interesting. You see, since his dad is on the feeding tube it means that he hasn’t tasted anything for over a week. I love food… I mean, really love food. I love crazy types of food. I love consistencies, flavors, smells, i mean everything that goes along with food. Christians dad is getting nutrients from the feeding tube and is staying fed and alive, but no taste…
Psalm 34:8 says “Taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man who trusts in Him.”
Taste and see that the Lord is good… Taste… When we taste food we experience food. We get to see if it something that we want more of. We get to see if it something that will satisfy us. We can live our lives without experiencing God. We can stay alive and not indulge in his Spirit. Never recognizing the flavor that is within us. Experience is so important to how we live our lives.
A favorite quote of mine is, “You can study God expertly in His parts and miss Him entirely in His being.” In order to know God we must experience him… taste him. We can know all the right things and have all the right answers and miss him completely if we’ve never tasted him.
So drink in a sunset. Indulge in a meal with friends and family. Get drunk with laughter. Taste that he is good. Experience the lover of our souls.
