“O taste and see that the Lord is good;
happy are those who take refuge in him.
O fear the Lord, you his holy ones,
for those who fear him have no want.” - Psalm 34:8-9
“William Law remarks that people are merely “amusing themselves” by asking for the patience which a famine or persecution would call for if, in the meantime, the weather and every other convenience sets them grumbling. One must learn to walk before one can run. So here. We – or at least I – shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have not learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have Him so, not “tasted and seen.” Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are “patches of Godlight” in the woods of our experience.“
From “Letter to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.”
Image via author, unnamed lake, Wallowa Mountains, Oregon
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Tim, there’s so much wisdom here. Thank you for sharing!
Our God makes himself known in our tastable and touchable world! For years I only knew him the best in nature~the air, the splendor of mountains, crisp falling leaves. And in my grief, my utterly ridiculous humanity, I was disenchanted because I didn’t feast on the ways he was communicating to me in the goodness of his people or situations, or praising him in the mundane and maddening! At my worst, when I fell flat on my faith, I feasted on an unbelievable love that I never knew existed before. My worship, especially in nature, was pure praise ~honoring HIM, the Creator of the Cosmos and little ‘ol me! I knew God was good BECAUSE of the beauty in the world~yet, in the ugly tears and my frailty, I felt unworthy. I didn’t have to be “good” to taste and see how good the Lord was~I only needed to surrender to the goodness and that HE was touchable and tasteful because he made US in HIS image~therefore I’m worthy ~and I feast and see now, my friend!
I’ve rambled~but I think you get me! God bless you my friend and Rascal too! I have a treatment tomorrow; I appreciate your prayers so much. You’re “iron that sharpens iron”. You’re a blessing to us!
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We all have “fallen flat on our faith,” and we all have failed or forgotten to “taste and see that the Lord is good” in any and every circumstance. In His unlimited patience and unbounded grace He keeps moving us toward the Godlight. If we dwell on this long enough, we will come love Him above all other loves, I suspect. Certainly He is worthy of that.
There is so much wisdom in so much of what Clive Staples Lewis had to say.
Look for the God light in your day tomorrow, come what may. And I will pray. All the best to all five paws there in Springfield!
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God is always careful to spare us from having faith in our faith… faith to be true and valid is to be fully dependent upon Him alone. I know I have fallen into the despair that seeks to meet a situation leaning on my faith rather than Him.
Praise the Lord we have Him and also one another for which I am very grateful.
Blessings to both of you!
BT
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