Psalm 34:8
[Psalm 34:8]...suggests the mystery of love, the fact that we know God and attain to a deep knowledge of him through love rather than by intellectual reflection. ...According to the psalmist, we must first taste, enjoy, and then understand...The spiritual senses are an analogy of the material ones: sight, hearing, touch and taste. In bodily things, taste and touch are the most intimate because an object is present directly when you taste or touch it. It is less directly present when you see it, hear it, or smell it. Touch is experienced when an object is present inwardly. God is substantially present in the inmost depths of our soul, and if he makes his presence felt there, the most appropriate analogy of it is taste -- the most intimate, the most direct experiences of the senses. It is an analogy; not a sensible reality, but a spiritual experience.
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him.
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