Psalms From The Caves - The Lord Is Good

Hello and welcome to Van Life Devotions. In the Bible Book 1 Samuel is the story of young David who after defeating Goliath became popular with the people of Israel. This threatened King Saul who wanted to kill David. David was secretly let in on the King’s plan and so he fled the country. That was in chapter 20.

In chapter 21, we now see David fleeing to the enemy country and sought refuge with the Philistine king of Gath whose name was Abimelek. But after a while, this King didn’t want David either as he purposely was acting weird. David escaped this king and fled for the caves. Although this episode was hardly one of David’s most heroic moments, he later looked back on it as a dramatic deliverance from the Lord. In response, he wrote Psalm 34 to celebrate his rescue. (BELIEVER'S BIBLE COMMENTARY, WILLIAM MACDONALD).

One of the well-known verses of this Psalm is verse 8, “Taste and see that the LORD is good” (Psalms 34:8 NIV).

When you taste food, you experience its flavor. David invites people to experience God. We are not just to believe in the Lord's goodness; we are to experience His goodness. And David in Psalm 34 gives reasons as to why God is good.

David leant to put his trust in God and the Lord delivered. And now he issues the invitation to all, “taste and see that the Lord is good”.

I can easily fall into the “poor is me” syndrome. I can feel unappreciated or why is this happening to me? Maybe you are like this too? You know what it is like. You scroll through your social media, and you start to envy the lifestyle of your friends and want what they have.

Maybe you need to taste and see that the Lord is good to you.

·       Taste what Jesus has done for you on the cross.

·       Taste how God has adopted you into His family.

·       Taste how God is faithful to His promises for you.

·       Taste how the Holy Spirit has given you every spiritual blessing.

Taste and see that the Lord is good.

David Moyes