Oh taste and see...........

Oh taste and see...........

“Like newborn babes crave pure, spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1Peter 2:2-3”

Friend have you tasted that the Lord is good?

Has the flavour whet your appetite for more?

Are your taste buds all a tingle with His presence?

Are you longing for the keys to heavens store?

Do you seek to taste and digest every morsel?

Are you hungry with a great anticipation?

Are you ravenous for all our wondrous God contains

Does He fill your heart with love and adoration?

A word of warning as your longing for Him deepens

Learn to recognise the flavour of His word

Learn to identify the pure milk of Father

By your knowledge and the message you have heard

Seek only Him, and He alone will prove sufficient

Crave only Him so that your growth will wholesome be

His truth alone can bring redemption, grace and healing

His truth alone can ever set the prisoner free.

Let others speak but weigh their words against Gods flavour

If they're too salty or too bitter, let them go

If they do not contain the nutrients for growing

Then they are not the things that He would have you know

Now you have tasted for yourselves the Lord's great goodness

You can grow up in your Salvation and can learn

How to distinguish between mans words and the Father's heart

What's genuine you will be able to discern.

Like newborn babies you can recognise what's good for you

So let your cry be always, only unto Him

Then let your growth be measured by your love and wisdom

Let earthly voices be drowned out til they grow dim.

Don't be deceived by sweeter sounding new ideas

But hold firm to the truth you've tasted to be real

And as we grow let each of us not get complacent

But remain full of expectant, fervent zeal.

Karen Holmes

20 March 2011.