Taste and see that the Lord (and Norway) is good. S30e19 Ps34

Certain TASTES can bring back the REALITY of a previous experience. 

I just experienced that while traveling to Norway.  Similarly, in Psalm 34:8, God asks us to TASTE and see THAT the LORD IS GOOD. God asks us to capitalize on using the gift of tasting to help us remember reality.  Join me for 7 minutes as I remember some of the tastes of Norway, as well as some of the tastes of Psalms. 

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The Psalms of My Friends

Taste and see that the Lord (and Norway) is good. S30e18 Ps34

What does God TASTE like? What Are the flavorable Memorable parts of Him?

How might God use taste memories and experiences to Help us first know and then recall who He is.

We’ve been on a trip to Norway. Curated trip that they try to come at you with all your senses. Taste is one of them. Pickled herring, non industrial strawberries. Lots of fish for dinner. Particular memory of Haddock fish served at a place they call the FISH CHURCH, to give you an idea of the priorities the scandanavian cultures put on seafood. Crayfish. Ice creams the way they like it. Ginger lemon teas. 

They wanted us to Taste and appreciate Norway.  

Let that particular sense work its magic to help us understand, and then remember the character of the land. 

In some ways, the TASTES, lots of good ones, and even the bad ones, the unpreferred ones, to teach us and help us remember. 

What taste will remind you of Norway?  

Similarly, we are heading towards Ps34:8 taste and see that the Lord is good. Therefore, What taste will help you recall some moment with the Lord, or the Lord Himself. 

34  Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. 

1    I will bless the Lord at all times;

his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 

2    My soul makes its boast in the Lord; 

let the humble hear and be glad. 

3    Oh, magnify the Lord with me, 

and let us exalt his name together! 

,In this psalm I am going to set my mouth to the blessing setting

I am going to use my will to Move my lips regularly to Praise Him

I am putting the center of my being toward the goal of putting Him in the Center

 in the place of making Him bigger, more prominent, exhaulted, 

         And making me smaller.  This is the humility, that appropriately positions us before the Lord. 

4    I sought the Lord, and he answered me 

and delivered me from all my fears. 

5    Those who look to him are radiant, 

and their faces shall never be ashamed. 

6    This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him 

and saved him out of all his troubles. 

7    The angel of the Lord encamps

around those who fear him, and delivers them. 

,Here we describe the position of seeking, asking, listening, looking to Him

         What happens when the poor cry out? When His people fear Him ?

He answers, He delivers, He fixes the faces of those who bend toward Him

They are radient, they are not ashamed, they’re delivered saved from troubles

8    Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! 

Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! 

9    Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, 

for those who fear him have no lack! 

10    The young lions suffer want and hunger; 

but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. 

,Oh taste these moments with God

Set the Flavor of what God is like, in your brain so you can recall it.

It is all of goodness. He has His best for us. For some profound reason

Taste all this little snippets of God. Pay attention.  Use these moments to teach you about Norway, or God Himself.  

Use the memory of these tastes to take you back there.

He’s been so very good to us in Psalms. 

He’s allowed us to taste and see Him in the Psalms. The Lord is good in the good times.  And surprisingly, The Lord is good in the trouble.

We tasted the comfort and of note the nearby enemies of Psalm 23

We were warned about the almost Bad guy of Ps 73. I almost did this wrong. My feet almost slipped. I almost envied the prosperity of the wicked . 

            In a sense, the bad guy in Ps 73 was ME! Yikes. Near miss

What a treasure this taste is: to know that we have met the enemy, and the enemy is me. At least some of the time. 

Ends well: Ps 7325           Whom have I in heaven but you*******? 

And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 

Then we had Ps 124 The appropriate mark of God’s children is not the absence of trouble. the presence of these bad things, and bad circumstances and bad people does not indicate the absence of the presence of God***

If the Lord were not at my side, things would have been different. This is a taste of Him that we simply must remember.

First, Ps 100 getting you to Gladness. By SERVING with the already glad. We described this as a SECRET of the church. Certainly it is tasting and seeing that the Lord is GOOD. It is so Good of Him to allow us to taste Him in this way

Ps 100 How to keep you in heaven Steadfast love of the Lord, Hesed. Faithfulness to an uncooperative people

Taste all this little snippets of God. Pay attention.  Use these moments to teach you about Norway, or God Himself.  

Then, you can Use the memory of these tastes to take you back there.

Set the Flavor of what God is like, in your brain so you can recall it.

Taste and see that Norway is good.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.