Taste God

There are people in the world that eat dirt.

Yes, it's true. Some of them do so for a lack of certain nutrients that can be found in soil, and therefore crave the earth like a fat man craves a whopper. But others eat dirt simply because they have no other source of food.

Imagine if dirt were the only thing you had ever tasted for your entire life, and then one day, while you are dishing up a clay pancake; a complete stranger walks up to you bearing gifts; a white box in his hands. He opens the box to unveil rows of chocolate covered donuts, glazed and warm. You grab one, and take a bite. Your mouth explodes with flavors that you never new existed. You eyes widen, a grin uncontrollably forms on your face, and you're filled with excitement.

The Bible says to "taste and see that the Lord is good..." (Psalm 34:8). David is beckoning us to come and taste of the goodness of God and see for yourself how great He is. Salvation, in a way, is like experiencing the best cuisine the world has to offer. But it is a mental tasting, one achieved through understanding. The first ingredient to God's salvation recipe is understanding the problem; we are all sinners and the price for sin is death. The second ingredient is understanding God's mercy, unconditional love, unmerited favor. One can hear of these things a thousand times, but there comes a point in a person's life when it sinks in, past head knowledge, into a deep understanding of the heart. It's at this point that a person tastes God. And when a person tastes God, it's like taking a bite of a chocolate covered donut for the first time in your life, when all you've ever had was dirt. That bite is the beginning of a craving for more of the same; a yearning for more of God, for there is nothing sweeter in all the world.

Psalm 119:103 "How sweet Your Words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey."

1 Peter 2:3 "Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord's goodness."