Focus: God Is Tasty

Text: 1Pet.2:3

"If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."

We live in a world where things keep losing their taste or going sour in our mouth. Something that is tasty now has a way of losing its taste in our mouth the next moment.

The economists tell us that human wants are insatiable. That means that nothing in this life truly satiates or satisfies. We get one thing today, and tomorrow we seek to get another thing. We keep trying things that never really satisfy. But when it comes to God, He is the only Someone or Something that never loses taste. 

God is always sweet to the taste. God never puts Himself in a situation or position where He becomes distasteful or where we get tired of Him.

All other things of this life lose taste, and as we grow older we tend to lose our appetite.

The psalmist says, "O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" (Ps.34:8). The psalmist is giving out an invitation to everyone. In essence, he says, 'Taste God and see for yourself. A trial will convince you. He's one experience in this world that is eternally satisfying and fulfilling.' The psalmist is speaking with assurance and firsthand experience, and Peter is echoing the same truth, "If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." The Lord is good and gracious. He never loses His sweet taste. 

The more you taste God, the more you want Him. Our appetite for God ever grows. We never seem to have enough of God.

We easily get tired or bored of people and things, but never with God. God is fun to be with. He speaks words of life and power. He is always interesting, fascinating and satisfying.

The writer of Hebrews declares, "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come" (Heb.6:4,5). We taste the heavenly gift, partake of the Holy Spirit, and taste of the word of God. The psalmist says, "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Ps.119:103). In the New Testament the invitation continues, "For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall TASTE of my supper" (Lk.14:24). 

God has prepared an eternal dinner for us - a tasty meal. That dinner begins with our salvation. He has an eternal table prepared for us.

Truly God is tasty; His words and gifts are equally tasty. Jonathan said, "My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey" (1Sam.14:29). As we taste even a little of Christ, our eyes brighten up and we are best poised for all of life's challenges.

Christ produces and provides tasty things. When you taste His water made into wine, it's the very best saved for the last. In the desert, He provided manna for the children of Israel. The Word says, "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the TASTE of it was like wafers made with honey" (Ex.16:31). We read also that "the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the TASTE of it was as the taste of fresh oil" (Num.11:8). From every angle we experience God, He comes out so good and ever fresh.

Open yourself up for a new experience with God! He is tasty. He is fun. He is ever fresh and refreshing. We have times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter