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| “Taste and see that the Lord is good…” |
| —Psalm 34:8a |
For some it happens very suddenly. For others it happens gradually over an extended period of time. Whether it happens suddenly or gradually, the result is life-transforming.
I’m talking about a person becoming aware that God loves him or her with an everlasting love. In fact, God loves that one so much that He sent His one and only Son to become a man, to live a sinless life, to die on Calvary’s cross of Roman torture, and to rise from the dead.
God did all this because He wants to reconcile men, women, boys, and girls to Himself by providing a blood sacrifice to cover their sins: the sin nature they inherited from Adam through their parents and their own sins.
Once the Holy Spirit makes a person aware of God’s love and what He has done, most people report an immediate sense of relief, peace, joy. and overwhelming thankfulness.
But, over time, it’s easy to become so used to the goodness of God that we sometimes forget the enormity of what He has done for us.
If I may, I would like to suggest we read once again the words of the Psalmist, as recorded in Psalm 34:8-10:
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
I have, indeed, tasted and seen that the Lord is good. He is, in fact, good beyond my comprehension. Perhaps you, too, have had this same experience.
If so, I invite you to join with me and say “Thank, You!” to the God who loves us with His infinite love.
