Both our home and our house are under reconstructive remodeling. Half the basement is living quarters and pantry, the other half is going to be laundry-workshop when fixed. Upstairs are two master bedrooms, the office (which is complete) 1 full bath and 1 half bath, the kitchen, the dining room and the living room. Now that my husband can see every shade on the color wheel, we are doing the house up nice.
The basement stairwell is a wet sand hue. The basement living quarters are paneled and carpeted. Upstairs my room is pink and white. The office is painted a warm yellow shade called Fleeting Fawn; when the sun rises and shines into our office it is absolutely gorgeous.
When we get to the kitchen, I have selected a pale yellow called Cornmeal. And I will be doing a custom border all along the top of the two walls that don't have cabinetry. I tell you these things to introduce you to our God, should you not know Him. Psalm 34:8" O taste and see that The Lord is good: blessed is the man who trusts in Him" will be written across it. And I am thinking I will have all of our friends sign it. I like different. And being someone who trusts in The Lord with all of my heart makes me different.
I have perfect peace. I do not worry as much as I used to, in fact I would like to believe that All is well in Jesus' Name for every aspect of my life, our life. Our finances have been blessed that our needs and wants have been given. Our love is blessed because we honor God with our lives. We tithe of our incomes, of our time, of our gifts and talents, of our hopes and dreams and goals. Our home is blessed because we bless God with our home.
Our home is open to visitors, friends, family, strangers. You knock on our door and want to tell us about your religion, we tell you about our Savior. You dial our numbers and we will pray with you, encourage you, lift you up right where you are. You dine at our table and God's blessings are invoked when we pray. You know our kids and are welcome in our home. You know our testimony and our witness is for God's glory, and none of the credit is due us for anything we have done.
Taste and See, two major senses which are given us by God are meant to draw us closer to Him, as well. Taste The Word, The Manna from God, The Bread of Life. While Taste and See are two major players in the sensory world, they are different but still able to work together well. How would you know, understand, see? how The Word tastes, if you cannot first have it cross your lips, lie on your tongue and then swallow it? You can't.
After that first bite, that first lesson, that first Sunday School class, that first message preached, that first small group session, that first knowledge of the Truth of the Holy Word of God, we hunger for more. This world is so full of fakes and falsehoods, deceits and greed, tainted messages that twist Scriptures or just plain leave them out that quite a few people really do want to know What is Real?
God Is Real. God's Word Is Real. God's Righteousness Is Real. God's Holiness Is Real.
I want The Whole Word of God. I am hungry and thirsty for righteousness and I will be filled. God says so in Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they (me, you) who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Psalm 63:1 "A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water."
Psalm 107:9 "for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things."
Proverbs 10:24 "What the wicked dread will overtake them; what the righteous desire will be granted."
Proverbs 21:21 "Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."
Gee all of these promises in God's Word sound yummy. Let us find some more to savor and learn.
Isaiah 55:1&2 ""Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost..Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare."
John 4:14 "but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 6:35 "Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
I believe. My hunger for Christ is satisfied in knowing Him, loving Him, serving Him. My thirst is quenched in His love, in His arms, in His heart. I believe that Jesus Christ Is Lord. Lord of All. Lord of my life. Lord of every beat of my heart. I believe that I am His and He is mine.
My voice is His and I sing for Him, under the anointing of The Holy Spirit of God. For Him I study, I write, I preach, I witness, I encourage and I sing. In fact, I will do whatever He wants me to do when He wants me to do it. Remember, it is more important to be obedient to God, than it is to make sacrifices in His Name. He may call us to do what seem to be silly things, what seems to be little jobs or, to us, unimportant things. Do them anyway. God uses the weak things, the foolish things of this world and this world's understanding to confound and confuse the strong: the strong-willed, the strong-minded. He has His own way of doing things and He wants to do them through us. O taste and see that The Lord is good.
