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Oh Taste And See That the Lord Is Good! (Psalm 34)
A Sermon by Elise Beatrice - Wednesday 2 July 2025


Lord, we love You. Your will be done, my Lord. 
Father, may Your wondrous Name be glorified. 
May Your Name, Lord Jesus, be praised. 
Lord, please, receive this praise that we will give to You. 

Psalm 34 
"I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together!
4 I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them. 8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! 9 Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him have no lack! 10 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. 11 Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. 14 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 
15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and His ears toward their cry. 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
20 He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. 21 Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 The Lord redeems the life of His servants; none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned." 

Amen. 
Yes, this is a beautiful psalm. 
And if we look into our lives, we'll see that we relate to it.
Because there are times in our lives when we sound just like that, feel the same about our Lord God, and praise Him with such love and thankfulness. When we are remembering the great things He did for us, when He delivers us from evil, from evil spirits, from spiritual attacks, from oppression, when He delivers us or just provides for us every day. He fights our battles every day. And what it is here is indeed true. 
This is a testimony from someone who knows the Lord. And we, who know the Lord, can always testify about His beauty, about Him, and His wonders. He indeed does those beautiful things we always say that He does. He has done them. He has done loads of those things in my life, and in the lives of those around me. So, yes. 
"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!"
Yes, taste and see that the Lord is good. Once you taste the Lord, you can't turn from Him. When you truly taste the Lord, you can't turn from Him. Nothing compares to Him; nothing compares to His ways. So, when you have really tasted that Beauty of the Lord, the Joy of the Lord, the Faithfulness of the Lord, when you have really felt the Love of God, you can't turn from it. You will struggle, you will look and look, and won't see anything. You will try many things; you won't find anything. Because nothing compares to the Lord, and nothing compares to His ways, nothing compares to His love, nothing compares to His joy, nothing compares to His medicines. Nothing compares to His food: spiritual food. Nothing compares to His words, which are filled with healing. Nothing compares to His Bread, the Bread of Life; to Himself. Nothing compares to Him. And He is our everything: He is our Living Water, He is our daily Bread, He is our health, He is our Leader, our deliverer, our Restorer. 
Yes, taste and see that the Lord is good, and blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. And that is the truth indeed. Because once we look to the Lord, we are not ashamed. We are looking to the Lord because we have nothing to hide, because we are in the Lord, and we are seeing the Lord as the One we depend on, as our everything. So when we look to Him, we will look radiant, because a face that is free from sin and guilt of sin is radiant, because there is nothing there on that face showing evil in our eyes, there's nothing there showing darkness, there's nothing there showing something that, when the Lord looks at that, He says, "No. I'm displeased with that person." 
When the Lord declares us innocent, our faces are radiant because there is no guilt in there. And when the Lord Jesus Comes Again, we will not be ashamed because we have been looking to Him when we were living on the earth. 
So, yes, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed are those who take refuge in Him. 

Yes, the Lord delivers us from our troubles. 
"The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all."

It is true. Righteous people have many troubles: they have a lot of persecution; they love righteousness. But there are billions of people on this earth who love unrighteousness, and they will always clash with and oppose those who love righteousness. 
Yes, the righteous people may have many problems, but the Lord delivers them from them all. 
But when verse 20 says, "He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken," that is the prophecy about our Lord. In fact, His bones were not broken on the Cross. He was righteous, yet He had so many troubles: all those lies, all those false accusations, all that immorality were labelled upon Him. He even carried sin for something He did not deserve. He was accused and crucified. He was righteous, yet He had so many troubles. And His bone was not broken, even though He was flogged. 

Since our Lord had carried the heaviest Cross of all, He knows how to help us when we carrying our little crosses. And no matter how tough it is, as long as we are in the Lord, He shows us His wonders, His grace and Faithfulness. Even with those oppressions, we still see His Glory and His miracles. He still blesses us with His peace, and though we may be oppressed one moment, we pray to Him, He hears it, and in the next, we are praising Him, thanking Him for all the great things He did, for all the great things He has done, and will always do. And that is when we are truly in the Lord. 
Yes. We are not alone, for the life that we live, we live for Christ, we live in Christ. We remain in His love, and He shields us and protects us. Yes, and declares us innocent. And the innocent will have no shame; their faces are radiant. Yes. 

We should be happy, even for those the Lord chooses to bless. When we know who we are, truly know who we are in the Lord, we are happy, even when the Lord blesses other people. Because we share that blessing, and we praise the Lord for blessing others. But those who live in darkness instead hate it when they see someone flourishing in a good way. Those are evil mentalities. For this, we remain in the Lord, so that the Lord will give us a lot of situations for us to worship Him and to glorify Him. 

Whenever the Lord rescues us, an inspiration of praise comes out of it. 

The Eyes of the Lord are on the righteous. Yes. And His ears towards their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil. But His face is on those who do good. So let us follow the Lord and remain in Him, and listen to His Son Jesus as He commanded us all. That will be the wisest thing we can do: to live for the Lord and by His words, and listen to His ways, for they are good.  
So, I pray this will bless you. 
May the Lord's peace be with you. 

Lord, thank You, Father, for Your wonders, for Your miracles. 
Thank You for Your peace, thank You for Your deliverance. 
Thank You for Your restoration. Thank You for Your blessing, my Lord. 
Thank You for watching over Your children, for protecting Your people.  
You don't show favouritism, but everyone who hates evil becomes Your friend, and You take care of them.  
You hate evil, and when they're hating evil, they are taking after You.  
Lord, thank You so much for Your good ways.  
Thank You for Your words, thank You for the Holy Bible; this Book of Wisdom, Lord, and knowledge and understanding, full of great things, my Lord. Thank You, for You are faithful. 
Thank You for always keeping Your promises. You are amazing. 
Lord, You are the Lord forever, and we love You. 
We thank You forever. 
Thank You so much, Father God. Thank You for Your Son, Jesus. 
Thank You for Your Holy Spirit. We Love You, and we bless You. 
Thank You for everyone that You save.
Please hear our prayer, in the name of Your Son Jesus. Amen.