Taste and See
Psalm 34:8
My God and Savior, have mercy and cleanse and purify me of all my cravings, every desire of my appetites, whether for things, notoriety, position, comfort, or my own vain glory and selfish ambition.
Yahveh (the LORD) is saying to us, “Go up. Come up higher.” There, in the midst of His glory He will provide a fearlessness and courageousness that will empower us—and we will be overcomers for Yahshua (Jesus).
The spies reported, “the Promised Land certainly does flow with milk and honey, nevertheless, … the people in it are men of great size and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight.”
Many in their journey toward the Promised Land complain that the cost is too high, the warfare is too great and the comfort too little. The rejections, loneliness, fears, and testings of their faith is too much, so they turn back.
The Promised Land is for those who have a faith that is being built up in the face of the wall-to-wall enemies, who want to stop, slay, kill, and destroy us at any given turn. But our God is not with them, He is with us!
The people wanted to kill the righteous ones (Joshua and Caleb) who were there to fan their faith. They desired to kill those sent to help them make the journey victoriously, that they might receive their promised blessings.
A different spirit has absolutely no tinge of resemblance to the world. If we look like the world, talk like the world, think like the world, and act like the world, then we are part of the world and its apostate religious system.
Yahveh God is our exceedingly great reward, our promise is Him. He is in the Promised Land, which is a promise to us, to all who obey. He will bring us there faithfully by His mighty outstretched arm.
Yahveh (the LORD) has a set aside His remnant. They are a people for His glory, a treasured possession, a holy nation, a royal priesthood, and a colossal fruit that He made in a land of giants.
Taste and see that Yahveh is good”, see how great He is in the fullness of all that He is. It is beyond fathoming, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, or mind imagined what Yahveh (the LORD) has created for those who love Him.
“You tested Me one too many times with your shallow confessions of faith, your prideful grumblings, and strong lustful desires of the flesh. Your flesh won out and it destroyed you.” Yahveh God was not enough for you.
Many have spurned His Commandments, and whitewashed His Word. “Therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall … whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant” all evildoers will be crumbled under it.
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble [on their path into My presence], it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Moses sent a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, and they went up and spied out the Promised Land from the wilderness—that is where many of us were. We were in a spiritual wilderness, sitting in the “man’s tainted religious system” wondering, “Where is the Promised Land? Where is His glory? Where is the fullness of truth? Why is my soul feeling shriveled up?”
We were in a wilderness. But our God and Savior said, “Come out, come out. I am making a way for you to continue on this journey that I have established before you. I go before you and I am your rear guard to bring you into the land flowing with milk and honey.”
“Then they came to the valley of Eschol and from there, cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes. They carried it on a pole between two men with some of the pomegranates and the figs. That place was called the valley of Eschol, because of the cluster, which the sons of Israel cut down from there.” (Numbers 13:23-24)
That single cluster of grapes was so large that two men had to carry it! It was a memorial, proving, “We saw, we carried, we ate, and tasted.” “Taste and see that Yahveh is good” (Psalm 34:8), see how great He is in the fullness of all that He is. It is beyond fathoming, no eye has seen, no ear has heard, or mind imagined what Yahveh (the LORD) has created for those who love Him.
