August 21, 2017

The Tasting

“Like newborn babies, 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.”  1 Peter 2:2

It was a great and joyous day when we attended the cake-tasting for our daughter’s wedding.  We drove to the bakery and met our daughter and her future mother-in-law.  As we entered the bakery, there were cakes everywhere – with all sorts of decorations, colors, and accessories.  Our server came out with a platter of different cakes.  We tasted each one, deciding upon the ones we liked and then turned to our daughter for the final decisions.  It was one of the many memorable days leading up to the big day of the wedding.  And yes, there will be cake.

Spiritual cake tastes good too, and that is the point Peter is making in this passage.  When we come to the word of God as newborns in Christ, we can handle a verse or two of the inerrant word that gets inside us and transforms us.  Through that process we have tasted the Lord’s goodness.  His word is that spiritual milk (or cake, if you want to stay with the analogy) and it causes growth in our lives.

Peter encourages his hearers to crave that kind of spiritual nourishment, since we have gotten a taste of God’s goodness.  We can find one of many examples in this epistle; in 1 Peter 1:8-9:  “Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” 

Try feeding on that word of God for a while.  We don’t see Jesus, but we love Him and believe in Him.  We are filled completely and thoroughly with this indescribable and unstoppable joy.  It is like being re-filled with the Holy Spirit’s leading and the word’s feeding.  It tastes so good – better than any piece of cake we’ve ever had.