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Psalm <\/strong>34<\/strong>:<\/strong>8<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Taste and see that the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge\u00a0in him.\u201d<\/p>\n Well known and much loved people and pastors have said to remove feelings from our faith and walk only on what is written in the Word of God.\u00a0 I would say something different, yes, we base our faith and verify our beliefs on the Word but it is silly to think that we ought to leave our \u201cfeelings\u201d out of it.\u00a0 God teaches us and establishes our relationship with Him also using our experiences and our emotions, which must be verified by the Word of God.\u00a0 John Calvin wrote \u201cNow we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God\u2019s benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed in our mind and sealed upon our hearts though the Holy Spirit.\u201d\u00a0 Something that is revealed to us is something we experience as a gift from God. The things of God are only revealed by the Lord Himself. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10<\/strong>)\u00a0 Often, what we learn best is learned through our experience and our feelings and we get a proper view of the experience through the Word of God.\u00a0 My heart may be hurt by one I love but I gain the true perspective and right thoughts of the experience from God.\u00a0 I read it in His Word, better is to have read it in His Word, and then God the Holy Spirit reminds me of the verse and gives it application to my experience. John 14:26<\/strong> \u201cBut the Advocate,\u00a0the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,\u00a0will teach you all things\u00a0and will remind you of everything I have said to you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 It is silly to think that the Lord who gave us the ability to have feelings (joy, anger, sorrow, empathy, etc.) would tell us that we, who are made in His image, and then reborn into that image, should not use the abilities that He gave to us to benefit us. The Lord has always called upon man to remember what He has done, for us and for others.\u00a0 He tells His people to remember the great, loving and caring things that He has done and in that way, along with His Word, which is something He did in giving us Himself.\u00a0 After all Jesus was the incarnate Word.\u00a0 Family and Friends, the verse from Psalm 34:8<\/strong> is telling us to experience God in all the ways that we can.\u00a0 We can see a person who seems to be quite fine, but we will not know that until we invest time and effort to know them.\u00a0 For example, a man may see a woman who catches his attention, he may become infatuated by her appearance, mannerisms and laugh, but love will only grow from the time and energy spent to know the person, spending time with them. So a person may see that only God is God and find God quite attractive and desirable for one\u2019s life, but it is not until one reads His Word, and spends time with Him, that one will truly know God and then, inevitably love Him.<\/p>\n If we know someone, but don\u2019t love the person deeply, it is unlikely that we will stick with them through sickness and health, poverty and wealth, and life\u2019s many disappointments.\u00a0 We must experience life with them, we must support them and they must support us, or we will be unlikely to stick with a person through the rough or hard times. We must walk with God and experience the majesty, the beauty, the kindness and love He has for us.\u00a0 I know that the Lord God has loved me not because of me, but in spite of who I am.\u00a0 When I have failed His name He has beautified it to me.\u00a0 Praise God.\u00a0 I have experienced Him never leaving or forsaking me but always been good to me.\u00a0 I\u2019m like a rescued pound dog, I appreciate being saved and loved.\u00a0 \u00a0I have tasted and seen (experienced) that God is good!\u00a0 He has always richly blessed me much more than I deserve, and the same is true for all of you.\u00a0 Praise God! (Hebrews 13:5<\/strong>)<\/p>\n Read His Word and walk daily with Jesus.\u00a0 Go through the good and the tough times together.\u00a0 Then you will not only have heard of Him and about Him, but will have worked your way through the crowd to know Him. \u00a0No one who knows Him can help but love Him.\u00a0 Those who have pressed into Him and walked with Him, will know Him and love him.\u00a0 It is God\u2019s gift to us, through Jesus our Savior and Lord. I\u2019m thankful that God invites us to do that.\u00a0 Oh how wonderful He is!\u00a0 God welcomes us as we come to Him.\u00a0 John 3:16-17<\/strong> \u201c\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son\u00a0so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\u00a017\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.\u201d\u00a0 God has invited us to come and live with Him.\u00a0 Let us be wise and grab the nail scarred hand that He extends to us.\u00a0 Lord, please keep us close to you.<\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/em><\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Psalm 34:8\u00a0\u201cTaste and see that the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge\u00a0in him.\u201d Well known and much loved people and pastors have said to remove feelings from our faith and walk only on what is written in the Word of God.\u00a0 I would say something different, yes, we base our faith and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,100,17],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-john","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}