Taste and See That The Lord is Good

Have you ever tried feeding a child who isn’t hungry or wouldn’t eat because the food didn’t have enough sugar on it?  You may have soon discovered that if they aren’t hungry, they won’t eat. They clamp their mouth shut so tight, that even a drop of water couldn’t seep through.  Parents may even try to coerce them to eat by telling them if they don’t eat they won’t grow big and strong.

We as adults can be the same way with the Word of God.  If we aren’t hungry, or if it doesn’t have sugar on top, we won’t eat it.   But we need to eat and have a balanced diet in the Word to grow spiritually.  We can’t pick and choose what scriptures we want to “digest” as if we were picking and choosing from a bowl of M&M’s.

Reading and applying scriptures to our lives is to be a delight, not a drudgery because the Word brings life.  Psalms 1:2-3 says “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.”

To delight in the law of the Lord is to cherish and place so much value on the Word of God that we choose to meditate and think about it continually.  We are to “stop, pause and ponder” these truths and absorb them into every fiber of our being, just like the tree’s roots absorb the river’s water so it can flow throughout every fiber of the tree, bringing with it the needed nourishment for growth.

Let’s not become uprooted, but rather let us put our roots down in good soil as we delight in and meditate on the Word of God.  Psalms 34:8 says “Taste and see that the Lord is good”.  You won’t be disappointed.