Seize the Moment – Day 325
Taste that the Lord is Good!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, February 5.
Did you know that what you think about someone will determine how you interpret their words and actions?
This is such an important paradigm to understand. It is crucial that we start with our view of God, which shapes everything else we think about ourselves, the world, and other people. And I’m not talking about your intellectual understanding of God because I’m sure you’ve worked quite hard to be orthodox in word, but I am talking about how you relate to God on the level of intimate knowing, not head knowledge alone.
Listen to 1 Peter 2:1-3, “Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.”
I was reminded by a friend of a wonderful quote by a favorite author of mine, “Never believe anything bad about God.”
That is such a beautiful reality of how we are to view God. It shapes our worldview! As Peter commands, I am to put off all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander so that I can grow up in my salvation and experience the fullness of Christ’s life in my life of wholeness and holiness—what He called the abundant life, the fullness of joy, the perfect love that drives out fear, and the peace that transcends human understanding.
These are the promises of God and where do they start? Peter makes it very clear when he says, “if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.”
If you believe in your deepest self (your heart) that God is good in all of His ways, then put aside the shadow of death and live in the love of God as the Light of the World.
Seize the moment and taste that the Lord is good.