Taste and See

Here's a helpful adage: “Don't forget in the darkness what you have learned in the light.” —Joe Bayley

Our tears, sweetened by heaven's raindrops, cover the desert landscape with pools of comfort.

This song was to be accompanied “on an instrument of Gath.” Gath? Goliath's hometown? Really!

A common house plant, Tradescantia Zebrina, is called “The Wandering Jew.” Do you wonder why?

Jehovah (Yahweh) is referred to as the El above all elohim (Ps 95:3). But isn't there just one God?

The devil's lie is that God's commands impede our happiness; they are, in fact, His portals to blessing.

“The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings” (Mal 4:2). How they'll need that healing then!

“Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion…” (Ps 48:2). Not now, says Asaph!

Of course the Lord doesn't sleep or wake up—but there are times when He seems to spring into action.

“They said, ‘Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?'” (Ps 78:19). Oh yes He can! And He did!

After these miracles, they “tested” God by making Him prove His faithfulness all over again.

“A generation that did not set its heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful to God” (Ps 78:8).

The road of life can be tough, but don't make it harder by exiting at Transgressor Way (Prov 13:15).

Life's only real tragedies are the ones from which we learn nothing. Stumbling stones can be stepping stones.

Parable means “to throw alongside,” where we use concrete examples to illuminate abstract truth.

When your present is unstable and your future unclear, take a quick visit to the past and remember.

Get ready for it! When Jesus returns to earth, He will be armed and dangerous (see Rev 19:11-16).

Things may seem to be topsy-turvy now, but all will be right in the end. God will make sure of it.

Learning to wait on a God for whom “one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet 3:8).

The Bible's boring? Christ's escape from death makes possible our escape stories. And Israel's, too!

The battle in Judges 4 and 5, explains the psalmist, is a prototype of the great battle at Calvary!

“You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold” (Ps 68:13).

Ready to do some riding? Here comes our Champion, calling us to join Him in His triumphal march.

“For every prophecy on the first coming of Christ, there are eight on Christ's second coming.” — G. Sweeting

“Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow: Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!” —T.O. Chisolm

“All I have needed Thy hand hath provided: Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!” —T.O. Chisolm

“You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold” (Ps 68:13).

“This is true faith—a living confidence in the goodness of God.” —Martin Luther

“Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, Our only answer is the blameless life.” —Wm. Cowper

When your body argues that there's no good reason to continue, call on your spirit. It agrees with God.

What makes us “steadfast, immovable” (1 Cor 15:58)? Look back to the cross and ahead to the glory. 

Safe on the Rock, dwelling in His tabernacle, under His wings—mixed metaphors never sounded so good!

How ready God is to give us another chance! Like His wisdom, He is “easy to be entreated” (Jas 3:17, KJV).

Why should the wicked fear God's mercy? Because His mercy for us means wrath upon our oppressors.

Mercy and wrath are united in the character of God. His wrath defends those who trust in His mercy. 

The tribulation will be “unmatched from the beginning of the world until now” (Mt 24:21, BSB). What will the faithful sing?

“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies” (Ps 25:10).

We are “as sheep in the midst of wolves,” so we need to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Mt 10:16).

“Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.” —Max Lucado

“How blest are they whose trespass has freely been forgiven, whose sins are wholly covered before the sight of heaven.”

“The psalm is like an April day, in which sunshine and rain chase each other across the plain.” —A. MacLaren

In Psalm 30:5, sorrow is viewed as an overnight guest, but the next morning joy moves in to stay.

“Storms help to make the sailors sturdy, and trials help to make Christians strong in faith.” —C.H. Spurgeon

“Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;…Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.” —George Croly

“To seek God is the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.” —Augustine

Faith runs to the Savior. Fear runs from the foe. Why not do both at the same time?

“Integrity means people are the same on the inside as they claim to be on the outside.” — Billy Graham

“When the world is tossing me, like a ship upon the sea, Thou who rulest wind and water, stand by me.” — C. Tindley

In the case of others' faults, sometimes it's good to “distinctly remember forgetting,” as Clara Barton said.

“His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom…shall not be destroyed” (Dan 7:14).

Satisfaction, Provision, Restoration, Direction, Protection, Accommodation, Destination—in 6 verses?