My granddaughters enjoy
baking. As they age, I am teaching them how to read and follow a recipe. They need to understand what ingredients
to use, how to read the measurements, and how to follow the mixing method. Knowing and setting the oven temperature and
time is vital, as is choosing the right container or tray to use for baking.
As we prepare and bake
the recipe, the girls comment on how good it smells. However, we only prove its goodness when we taste it. Unfortunately, two out of three of us are disaccharide intolerant. This means we can understand, follow, and
complete a recipe, but tasting it is out of bounds if the product contains double sugar called sucrose.
Just as one granddaughter and I have to miss out on this final tasting step, when it comes to baking, we believers can also miss out on tasting and seeing that the Lord is good. Perhaps we have followed God’s recipe for salvation by believing and accepting Christ into our lives. Maybe we are regular church attendees. Reading our Bibles and attending Bible studies or prayer meetings may also be spiritual habits.
Nevertheless, if we miss the vital step of trusting God and his Word enough to taste it by putting it into daily practice, we may only taste the Lord’s true goodness irregularly. We may know God’s Word by memory. We may even enjoy reading it. But it is only in the practical application that we taste the
truth, goodness, and wisdom within it.
Although we may follow it and put it into practice, some questions arise--questions I ask myself. How often do we worry? Do we trust God enough to tithe and give generously above tithing? Do we talk to the person who has
wronged us or instead talk about them? Do we do
good to those who wrong us or only to those who do good to us? Do we unwittingly choose to only trust and put
into practice certain spiritual teachings?
These are only a few of the questions we can ask ourselves. But in light of them, we must reconsider how much we taste and see the Lord’s
goodness.
How about you? Think of some areas in which you might need to taste a little more
of God’s goodness by putting all of his Word into practical action?
Father God, thank you that as I apply the
truth of your Word to my life, I can taste and know how good
you are all the time. In
Christ’s name, amen.
Lynne Phipps and her family live on a small hobby farm in the heart of Alberta, Canada’s farming country. She has been writing devotions for forty years and never tires of the spiritual correlation the Holy Spirit blesses her with. He uses normal everyday events and the behaviors of the multitude of glorious creatures He has brought across her path to point her to the truths of God. Lynne is a devotion writer for VineWords: Devotions and More.
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