Taste This

I have a sickness. For some reason I think it is my job to make people eat and love all of the things that I love to eat - especially if it something weird like a deep fried Oreo. Yes, I am "that person" that plunges a fork in your mouth saying "try it" without giving an opportunity for rebuttal. I don't know why except that when I like something I want other people to get to like it too. I do not want anyone to miss out on what I consider are wonderful things. I am as delighted to cook something delicious for someone else as I am to eat it myself because I have on some other occasion tasted that it is good. (sometimes great!)

Recently, I have been reading 1 Peter. As I was reading through chapter 2 of 1 Peter, verse 3 jumped off of the page at me "if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord." I must have been reading on autopilot because it was as if I had suddenly been awakened or perhaps that I was suddenly reading in a language I understood. I HAVE tasted the kindness of the Lord. So often. He is so good. So I backed up to read what was before the "if". "Therefore putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the spiritual milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord."

If we are in Christ then we have tasted the kindness of the Lord and rather than be satisfied we are to crave Him and His word all the more. We are to clear out and cast away all that is bad and impure that we may be properly nourished. Malice and deceit and hypocrisy and slander sullies the taste of the pure milk of God's Word. I have tasted His kindness and like really good brownies want to share that goodness so that others might know.