THE LORD IS GOOD --- Psalm 34:8.
"O taste and see that the Lord is good!" --- Psalm 34:8.
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and for ever." --- Hebrews 13:8.
There is infinite fulness of all spiritual blessings treasured up in Christ Jesus for all his people; and out of his fulness they do receive, even grace for grace. But alas! we are slow of heart to believe the truth: we please ourselves with small things, and come slowly forward to a daily growth out of that fulness. Young converts, enamoured with what they have in hand, or living upon their feelings, are ready to flee from knowledge as something dangerous, and destructive of holiness; and mere professors are apt to deny or even deride their precious feelings, as though the affections had no share in the Christian religion, and that the whole consisted in having a crowded head.
Come then, O my soul, divest thyself of pride of party, and the strife of tongues; be thou an humble supplicant at the feet of Jesus, for a live coal from the altar, to purge away thine iniquity, and to warm thine affections; and likewise for the aid of the Holy Spirit, to lead thee into the knowledge of the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. Then shalt thou not only taste, but see; not only see, but taste, both sweetly taste and clearly see that "the Lord is good."
Oh the rich depths of love Divine,
Of bliss a boundless store!
Dear Saviour, let me call thee mine;
I cannot wish for more.
On thee alone my hope relies,
Beneath the cross I fall;
Thou art my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour, and my All.