Taste and see

You cannot taste by proxy. Someone else’s description of the meal, however eloquent, puts nothing on your tongue. That is precisely the point of this verse’s strange invitation: taste and see. The goodness of God is not offered as a doctrine to agree with from a distance but as an experience to be had firsthand.

David wrote this psalm after one of the less dignified episodes of his life — on the run, afraid, improvising badly. Taste, for him, was not a theory; it was deliverance he had personally chewed and swallowed. The verse is a testimonial from a man mid-crisis, not a slogan from a man in comfort.

How do you taste, practically? You bring one real thing to God today — a need, a fear, a decision — and let Him handle it, instead of reading about Him handling things for other people. Firsthand trust, however small the portion, is how the seeing happens. The table is set this morning. Taste.