June 29 - Psalm 34:8

 

O taste and see

that the Lord is good;

happy are those who

take refuge in him.

Psalm 34:8

 

We've been talking a lot about food this week. Communion. The bread of life.

 

Well, one of my favorite verses is the call to "taste and see that the Lord is good."

 

We have a world that is starving. Marriages are failing. Children are estranged. There is job loss and financial turmoil. We're dealing with too much mental illness and depression. Despair is rising, and so are the suicide rates. Addiction is becoming more and more normative. People are angry and vengeful. Cancer and other illnesses keep eating their way into families. The is violence, abuse, bloodshed, and war. Life is hard.

 

And I don't know how people do it without God!

 

God is good. And if we let him, he reverses all these curses. Now, all the caveats apply: It's a broken world because of sin. People hurt us, and we hurt them. God offers help, but how many of us want to do it our way. But if we let him, God will reverse all these curses.

 

·         He can knit marriages back together.

·         He can return our prodigal sons.

·         He is the provider when things are tight.

·         He is meaning, rather than purposelessness.

·         He is hope, rather than despair.

·         He is a reality bigger than addiction.

·         He is forgiveness, quelling vengence.

·         He is a shelter in the midst of violence.

·         He is truth when abuse and lies demean us.

·         He is the healer of earthly ills.

·         And he is majestic hope as this temporary world fades and eternity beckons.

 

O taste and see that the Lord is good!

 

In Christ's Love,

a guy who is hungry

for God and his blessings