O taste and see that the Lord is good.Psalm 34:8

I insist that the effective preaching of Jesus Christ, rightly
understood, will produce Christian experience in Christian believers.
Moreover, if preaching does not produce spiritual experience and
maturing in the believer, that preaching is not being faithful to the
Christ revealed in the Scriptures.

Let me say it again another way: The Christ of the Bible is not
rightly known until there is an experience of Him within the believer,
for our Savior and Lord offers Himself to human experience.

When Jesus says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden” (Matthew 11:28), it is an invitation to a spiritual experience.
He is saying, “Will you consent to come? Have you added determination
to your consent? Then come; come now!”

Yes, our Lord gives Himself to us in experience. David says in Psalm
34: “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” I think David said
exactly what he meant.

Surely the Holy Spirit was saying through David: “You have taste buds
in your soul for tasting, for experiencing spiritual things. Taste and
experience that God is good!”

Lord, the great need of people within and outside our churches today
is to experience the “real thing”?God in all His power and majesty
and personal involvement in our lives. Help me to inspire others to
“taste” You, Lord.
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