Taste

Justin Smidstra·2025-04-01

Pastor Justin Smidstra explores the biblical metaphor of spiritual taste as a means by which believers perceive, understand, and experience God's grace and truth. Drawing on Scripture's use of sensory language to describe faith, Smidstra argues that while the world prioritizes sight, the Bible elevates hearing as primary to faith, which then enables spiritual sight and deeper appropriation of salvation's blessings. This article offers practical theological reflection on how the senses function as biblical images for the believer's experiential knowledge of God.

Although we human beings are creatures of dust, our creaturely frame is a marvel of divine handiwork, fearfully and wonderfully made. God endowed our earthly frame with amazing senses -- sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste -- by means of which we perceive, understand, and experience the physical world. Although the eternal God is exalted above all that is called creature, and thus inaccessible to our human senses, nevertheless, He is a God who condescends to His lowly creatures and reveals...

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