"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.