Taste and see that the LORD is good … — Psalm 34:8
How do we taste and see that the Lord is good? Sometimes our mouths are full of the disgusting, distasteful ingredients of life. Sometimes we are so intent on these things that we don’t realize that we have a choice.
We can hold up to God all that is bitter and sour in our lives. In fact, we must. If we don’t, we will never be able to taste and see that He is good. We will be stuck in a double bind: trying to create a paradise we cannot create or blaming God for a hell here on earth that He did not create.
As a race, we humans overestimate our own abilities and underestimate the abilities of God.
All of us believe lies about the character of God. That is part of the human condition. We don’t shed these lies by deleting them from our doctrinal statements. We are released from them when we feel their apparent truth and go to God to taste the difference.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
Dwight Clough is the author of four Christian books and is an active member of Lake City Church in Madison. This devotional is also available via email and you may review the archives back to 2002. To contact Dwight or Kim, use their contact form. You may also support their ministry.