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While shopping at a holiday market, I came across a bakery vendor offering frosted cookies with lines to write what we are thankful for in edible ink. It was just the kind of fun thing my people would like, so I bought a few (This bakery makes delicious cookies, I might add).
The Psalmist wrote, “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8). When we eat the cookies, we will literally eat a list of our blessings--tasting the good.
The word “taste’ in the original language of
this verse means “taste, perceive, and eat.” When we sit down to our Thanksgiving
meal, we can smell and touch it, but until we actually put Alyne Varnado’s
recipe (or your relative’s recipe) for dressing in our mouths, we don’t get it.
And unless we take a bite of one of those cookies, we’ll miss out, too.
And “see” in that verse also means “perceive,
but also look at, inspect, and consider.” And there is one other meaning that
caught my eye, “to look on joyfully.”
It is the same with the Lord. Until we taste and see, we ‘re only observers in the kingdom of
God. If we can’t receive those blessings with joy, we’re missing so much.
So, as we gather at Thanksgiving whether
with few or many, let us indeed “Taste and see the Lord is good,” in every possible
way.
You don’t have to eat a list of your
blessings, but I’m looking forward to it.
Happy Thanksgiving dear ones—so grateful
for you!
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