Taste and See

Once in a while we have that special moment when we get to experience the many blessings of God.  Events where we get to see those blessings unfold are the birth of our child, their graduation from High School, and eventually their wedding day.

This couple that I know well are excited to enter the journey of marriage.  Their meeting one another was by chance a few years ago.  However their relationship began less than a year ago.

As their story unfolded, they dated and soon determined that they were to be married. The couple attended pre-marital classes at church and at a culminating event the future bride and groom's parents met for the first time.  Both sets of parents shared how they had been praying for their children's future partner.  And both shared how wonderful it was that God had answered their prayers.  The sweetest story of the day was told by the bride's father.  He shared the moments leading up to the groom asking for his daughters hand in marriage.  The father explained that he had a dream in which he heard God's voice tell him to Taste and See that the Lord is good.  Later that day the groom asked if for permission to marry his daughter.  He knew instantly that this was good and gave his blessing.

On January 30, 2016 this wonderful couple will be married.  I wish Mark and Sarah many blessings and a life filled with HIM.

Taste and See January 28

Psalm 34:8 Oh taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man that trusts in Him”.

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid...One thing have I asked of the Lord; that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and inquire in His temple. For He will hide me in His shelter in the day of trouble; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will lift me high upon a rock…I will sing and make melody to the Lord…The Lord is my strength and my shield.” From Psalm 27.

According to Matthew 5, those who hunger and thirst after God will be filled.  It is God’s desire to commune with His people, to show His mighty power, love, grace, mercy, and righteousness. Being made in His image, the moment He quickens (makes alive) our spirit we sense the kinship of God and our spirit leaps with joy in recognition.  He makes us, by a touch, hungry for more and creates an insatiable thirst for water from the fountain of Life.

The spiritual world is all around us, enclosing and embracing us altogether.  It is within the reach of our inner selves waiting for us to recognize it.  God is waiting for us to recognize His presence and walk in the sweetness of His unending love and dwell in the shadow of His wings while He heals our wounds and prepares us for all of life’s troubles and triumphs.

The scripture tells us that if we seek Him with our whole heart He will be found by us, He will make Himself known to us in ways that we will only understand as we move beyond the veil of our natural minds and into His presence by the Spirit.

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