Taste and See

With this psalm, you may feel like you’re reading someone else’s mail. Or others are reading yours! 

“Whoever drinks of the water that I [Christ] shall give him will never thirst” (Jn 4:14). 

Life’s hardest decisions are often choosing to show love to God over loyalty to family (Mt 10:37). 

Like a dual lock on a cask of treasures, David concludes Book I of the Psalms with a double “So be it!”

Early Christians were epistles “known and read by everyone” (2 Cor 3:2, ISV). What says the Epistle by You?

“My ears You have opened.” That the King of kings should thus come to be the Servant of servants!” 

No animal at the same time could be a sweet savor, and non-savor, offering. But Christ is all in all! 

When I trust the Lord, my blessed life becomes evidence to encourage many others to trust Him, too. 

Sometimes we settle for a band-aid solution in life instead of letting the Lord excise the whole problem.

What should we do when we have a build-up of bad feelings? Let it all out? Try to hold it in? 

“The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes.” —G. Keith

This desert world sucks us dry if we sink our roots in here. But “the river of God is full of water” (Ps 65:9).

Are you fortified—or mortified—when the hard times hit? This psalm tells us how to prepare.