Psalms 34:8 says, \u201cO taste and see that the Lord is good\u2026\u201d \u00a0The reality that God is good is a fact.\u00a0 But this reality does us no good unless we know and experience His goodness for ourselves.\u00a0 No one can adequately tell us of His goodness.\u00a0 Secondhand knowledge will always leave something lacking.<\/p>\n
So, Psalms 34:8 uses an interesting phrase for personally experiencing the goodness of God.\u00a0 We must taste and see it.\u00a0 This implies that we must know and perceive God\u2019s goodness as a connoisseur of fine food, first partakes of a dish; then with each bite realize that it is absolutely heavenly.\u00a0 It is exceedingly abundantly above all that he could ask or think (Eph. 3:20).\u00a0 Thus he relishes each bite.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s goodness is His nature.\u00a0 It is who He is.\u00a0 He can\u2019t help Himself.\u00a0 He is morally good.\u00a0 All that He does is good.\u00a0 He is excellent, wonderful, beautiful, tenderhearted, and merciful.\u00a0 His goodness is attached to His glory.\u00a0 It is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance (Rom. 2:4).\u00a0 To encounter His goodness is to be overwhelmed by all that is right and lovely.<\/p>\n
To taste God\u2019s goodness means that we intimately appreciate, savor, and desire it.\u00a0 There is nothing that we can add to it, but we can receive it.\u00a0 A person can agree with the statement:\u00a0 \u201cGod is good.\u201d\u00a0 But we cannot adequately appreciate those words until we taste and see for ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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