Have Your Tastes Changed?

Advent Devotional by Elna Rae West

“Oh, how I love Thy laws!

It is my meditation all the day.”

—Psalm 119:97—

Why is it we feel that some foods don’t taste as good as they did when we were younger? We wonder why fresh peaches, sweet corn and delicious pastries, like chocolate cake and cherry pie, lack the flavor they used to have. It’s not the “quality” that changes, but our taste buds thin out as we grow older.
Young children have an abundance of taste buds. When a little boy “crams” food into his mouth and he looks like a chipmunk, he doesn’t think it’s “poor manners,” he’s satisfying his taste buds.
In a spiritual sense, some Christians suffer a similar deterioration . . . a loss of taste for the things of God. Many new believers eagerly devour the milk of the Word. They can’t get enough. Their spiritual taste buds are in overdrive and soon they are chewing the solid food of the Bible.
Then something happens to “numb” Christians to the delightful delicacies of God’s truth. Unlike the process that weakens our ability to enjoy the flavor of the cherry pie, this spiritual deadening can be avoided. The attitude of the psalmist will prevent it. He said, “Oh, how I love Thy laws!” (119:97)
Are your spiritual taste buds “sweeter than honey?” Does the Bible still have its same appeal as when you were a young Christian? If not, there may be a problem with your taste buds.
How sweet are Thy words unto my taste? Yea sweeter than honey to my mouth. (Psalm 119:103)

Prayer:
Dear Lord, may we cram Your words into our hearts, so they will be sweeter than honey! Amen.