“Taste God not cookies”

Oh taste and see that the Lord (our God) is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. Psalm 34:8

Verse Reflections:  One of my favorite five senses is my taste.  How do I taste God?  The first thing we will have to do is to put down any competing tastes.  Think of how we taste wine at a wine tasting.  We swirl the wine around in our glass then we take a long breath to inhale the scents.  We take a leisurely sip so that the flavors can roll onto our tongue.  Many times we even swish it around in our mouth.  Then we go a step further and try to name the flavors we detect.  Let’s stop this morning and name the flavors of God.  He tastes like bright glowing sunshine with a hint of lilac for me.  Then I take another whiff and I think I taste some pine or oak, I can’t tell which, the flavors seem to waiver back and forth.   For me he tastes like the great outdoors, maybe a hint of a campfire.  I am closest to God when I am outdoors looking at His majestic creations so these tastes do not surprise me but it is the first time I have ever tried to truly taste God.  Today as I eat His food creations today I am going to eat a little slower, savor the tastes just a little more and try to mix in God’s flavors.  As we taste Him, as we trust Him He will be our safe place, our refuge.

Prayer:  Thank You Father for giving us a safe place to hide.  Thank You for giving us this verse that stretches our interpretations of You, our relationship with You.  May I concentrate this morning on the way YOU taste, not my food.  That will change my entire eating experience and I love it.  Father, we have done this.  My first month was hard, the first 10 days of February has been hard also but it has been less excruciating.  I thank You for that.  Maybe taking the taste of my foods and weaving You in to that taste will bring me to a whole new level of eating.  I need to grow and change.  Sometimes I live in my teenage head of exploding tastes and indulgences.  May I grow up and experience life more like a slow, leisurely wine tasting.  I love You so much and I am just glowing inside from these beautiful visualizations.  Thank You.