Psalm 61: “When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock… for you have been a shelter for me.” In times of adversity what distinguishes the saint of God is what forms our thought processes and shapes our reaction to bad. When our heart is overwhelmed, our mind fainting, we immediately turn to Jesus who is the Rock of our salvation, our high tower, our shelter from the storms of life. But, and this is my main point, we get there by a particular path whereby the Holy Spirit floods our mind and heart with the truth treasures of God’s word we have ingested and buried in our heart. Precepts, promises, and divine understanding, like the loving nature of our Daddy and His promise to never ever leave or forsake us, burst into our conscious thoughts as the Holy Spirit sorts through our repository of God Stuff and tosses real time revelation into our conscious: “Oh, that’s a good one, here John, wrap your mind around this truth!” In times of difficulty we must avoid the pitfalls of our “Self” and it’s never ending desire for control, which will try to take us where our fleshly mind and emotions want to go. We can only do that if we have “tasted the good word of God”, and tasted and tasted and tasted … What comes out of us when our heart is overwhelmed, our mind fainting, is what we have been diligently putting into our heart day by day, for such a time as this. The pathway to Jesus during adversity is an informed path: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…” The crux of the issue is simply a matter of taste, taste for the things of the world or taste for the things of God. And remember, God does not promise us understanding, He promises us peace which is better than knowing why, and guards our heart and mind with it.
TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD
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