Taste and See
O taste and see that the LORD is good!
PSALM 34.8
Once you have encountered your Lord’s love up close and personal, you become addicted for life. It’s impossible to experience enough of Him. It’s as Jesus reveals Himself to us that we find ourselves hungering to know Him more intimately and to love Him more earnestly.
Speaking from his own experience, St. Augustine said, “You flashed, You shone; and You chased away my blindness. You became fragrant; and I inhaled and sighed for You. I tasted, and now hunger and thirst for You. You touched me; and I burned for Your embrace.”
Spiritual hunger is the result of encountering Christ in our lives. That hunger then becomes the bridge by which we gain a heightened experience of Him with us in our circumstances. An authentic knowledge of Him will cause you to move through life with your spiritual antenna up, looking for signals of His presence nearby.
Ask the Lord to reach into your life like He did with Augustine. Then patiently wait for Him to flash, to shine, and to chase away your own blindness to His presence. He will come to you and do just that.
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