Tastes Vary

Tastes Vary

Just as the taste in our mouth can be completely changed from a bad taste to a really good taste (for example, from sour milk to tomatoes), so our taste for Christ’s commandments and Christ’s virtues can also be completely changed from not being palatable at all to being our favorite meal.

This is how it can go (for example) with being in subjection to one another. This is not only abhorrent to ungodly people, but unfortunately it is deeply ingrained in our human nature, also in converted people long after they have been converted. Most people keep this sinful taste for as long as they live. They are never saved from it. Therefore it is and will be as it usually is.

The opportunity is open, and to this we are called: to receive a new taste in our hearts so that submission tastes delicious.

It is easy when you delight in it, even very easy, just as the true saying states, “Desire drives the work!” In other words, the work gets done joyfully, for joy is strength.

It gives you a taste for more—more, more, more—so that you long for the next opportunity.

This is completely different from doing it with hesitation and the sighing of a slave.

Doing righteousness, paying and paying and paying taxes and all kinds of bills, etc., and high prices—unfortunately these are far from everyone’s taste so that they have a heart-felt longing for this heavenly, “yummy” food instead!

But—thanks and praise—taste can be completely changed! And what can we say about the flavor of this vitamin-rich Christian main course and dessert: suffering unrighteousness!?

How do you like its taste, dear brother or sister? Do you long for the next meal or for a second helping from the bowl before it is empty—or do you not like the taste at all, or just a bit?

It is still the time of grace, and God is the God of miracles. Our great God loves to perform miracles—especially in our inner man. Believe it! Seek it!