Psalms 34:8

Psalms 34:8

Religion is a thing that all must try for themselves. Notice a few things that it is well to try and "taste."

I. Prayer. Find out in the Bible some promise, then go to God with that promise, and ask that it may be true to you, that you may enjoy it for Christ's sake. If you go on waiting and praying, you will "see."

II. Read the Bible. You may not always find it pleasant, because some things we must do as a duty, and the pleasure will follow. "O taste and see."

III. The pleasantest thing in the world is to feel forgiven to feel that God loves you. It is the happiest feeling anybody ever has this side of heaven. "O taste and see."

IV. It is a happy thing to conquer one's sins, to keep one's heart clear. It is a pleasant thing to weed a garden; but the pleasantest of all is to keep your heart free from weeds.

V. Work. Knowledge in the head will not do without love in the heart, and that will not do without work in the fingers. Do something useful. Be kind. Do good to somebody.

VI. Everything is sweet till you have tasted a sweeter. The pleasures of the world are sweet to those who have never tasted religion, but people who have tasted Divine pleasures care not much for the pleasures of the world. They say that heavenly pleasures are better than earthly ones. Having once tasted the upper spring, they cannot go back to the nether spring. "O taste and see."

J. Vaughan, Children's Sermons, 1875, p. 57.

References: Psalms 34:8 . S. Cox, Expositor, 2nd series, vol. iv., p. 411; G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons, p. 115.