Taste

“Oh taste and see that the Lord is Good!

Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him.”

- David, Psalm 34:8

William Munny

“You kill a man…you take away all he has and all he’s ever gonna be.”

The Schofield Kid

“Yea…well I guess he had it coming!”

William Munny

“We all have it coming, Kid.”

- Clint Eastwood, “Unforgiven”

In 1 Samuel 21, a young David is running for his life from King Saul. Misunderstood and afraid, David flees to Saul’s arch enemy, the Philistine King of Gath, Achish. What initially looked like a safe place quickly became a deadly trap, so out of desperation, David became a raving lunatic, slobbering and drooling down his beard, pulling frantically at his hair, shouting incoherently, and falling to the ground feigning total insanity. Miraculously, it worked! The king sent David away, and as a result, out of a deeply grateful heart, David penned these words in Psalm 34:8,

“Oh taste and see that the Lord is Good!”

(NKJV)

I think David, like William Munny, knew that at the end of the day “we all have it coming.”

Any eternal audit done on my life or your life will find us coming up short. But, unlike Munny, David is convinced that his God is unequivocally and consummately Good!

Last week, Pastor Jared taught us that Goodness is not Fairness — It’s better! Fairness is giving someone what they deserve. Goodness is giving someone more than they deserve. So, when a good God rescues David from a predicament he created, he sings a new song out of a grateful heart.

David invites you and I today not to bland familiarity with a distant god, but to experience the fresh encounter of a personal Savior who is present to rescue you every single day…in little ways and in big ways!

Open your eyes. Open your ears. Open your heart. Taste and See that your Lord is Good!

Pastor Harry

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