I have been married for 21,735 days – and in most of those days I have had to figure out what to have for dinner. Sure, sometimes we ate out, or we ate with family and friends, but the majority were days when I had to prepare something to eat.
After 21,735 days I don’t want to figure out something to eat tonight. Nothing appeals to me anymore. Everything seems boring or tasteless. I’m tempted to start going through all my many cookbooks to see if something interests me … it must be simple (I’m long past recipes that require lots of work) and above all, it must taste good.
That’s why when I came across that verse in Psalm 34 today, it so resonated with me. “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.” [Ps 34:8-10]
“Taste and see that the LORD is good.” What a wonderful invitation. God invites us to come to Him and to allow Him to prove His Word for us and in us. He invites us to partake of His promises and His presence just as we would sit down at a sumptuous meal. He tells us that in Him we find plenty. He tells us that if we trust Him, we will lack no good thing.
The more time I spend partaking of the Promises and Presence of my LORD, the less this world’s delights appeal to me. They are like shiny baubles that glitter for a season and then tarnish or waste away. But the Lord, the LORD(!) … He is more precious than silver, more costly than gold, more beautiful than diamonds. And nothing I desire compares with Him. Amen&Amen