What does tasting and seeing God's goodness supposed to mean? Does it sound weird to taste the Lord's goodness? While it may not mean that way, our senses are still crucial to experiencing God's goodness.

If we're Christians, we automatically know the goodness of the Lord ever since He came and took over our lives for the first time. Our faith allows us to gain knowledge of his love and grace. Our intimate walk with our Father in Heaven affects many sensory experiences.

But is it enough to taste and see? 

How about taking it all in and letting His all-encompassing power flow through us without having to mind how we experience God's goodness? We all have different ways of encountering and knowing who He is, often emanating from the darkest places no one would expect.

Find out what tasting and seeing God's goodness means.
The verse "taste and see that the Lord is good" is in the New International Version of Psalm 34:8. One should take this as a warm invitation from God, a loving hand reaching out with extended protection, direction, and peace that surpasses all understanding.

Besides that, His goodness also includes the forgiveness He is willing to give to those who ask. That's the beauty of God's saving grace – everyone is welcome, and there's no limit to how much we can take. As long as we continually trust in Him, regardless of how our lives turn out after, we must keep taking refuge in the Lord's grace for us to keep experiencing His goodness.

The problem is, when things go South, some people often forget God's goodness quickly. We are guilty of only praising God's goodness when we taste and see the good sides of being with Him and walking in the path He laid for us.

Despite the challenging situations, they aren't reasons for us to be blinded by the goodness of God because that's where it shines. The light becomes brighter in the darkness; without fear and doubt, we can never taste and see God's goodness in the dullest situations.

Total dependence on God affects the experience of His goodness.
The allure of seeing it for ourselves can take us to a whole new level in our relationship with Him. Being involved in God's goodness rather than being a spectator improves our well-being by multitudes.
We cannot obtain God's goodness by waiting for it to happen. Our relationship with God is a two-way street, regardless of the generosity of His grace. And because He gave us so much, we can never repay Him the same way and in identical amounts.

However, there is a way. By being entirely dependent on Him, as He wants us to be, there is a guarantee of God's constant goodness, which shifts our worldview of what being blessed is like. Because as much as we are in a good place because of God's goodness, there might be times when joy is the aftereffect.

Blessings come in many forms.
Consider yourselves blessed when you depend on God for provisions and protection from life's storms and attacks from all fronts. When a person is blessed, it can mean a lot of things: a series of luck, happiness, and prosperity.

Life tests us in many ways, measuring how much we can take even after savoring God's goodness. Job is a solid testament to a person immensely blessed in the beginning, along with constant communication with God. He was the wealthiest man in the land at his time.

But when the Devil saw how much God blessed him, he tried to gaslight God by claiming that Job only loves God because of the material blessings He's giving. And so God allowed the Devil to strip away everything Job had, including his children and good health.

Still, that didn't stop Job from blessing the Lord's name and seeing His goodness through all the pain and ordeals. He never blamed nor cursed God for failing to give him the things he used to enjoy. And after a certain period, God eventually multiplied all the blessings Job used to own.

We cannot simply measure the grace of God by the beautiful moments alone. Our Father God is good in W. Veronica Lisare's memoir, and it is evident in the author's life despite the trauma, depression, and challenges she had to go through to be the person she is today. 
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While the darkness may completely overshadow our lives, forcing us to think that God left our side, you must always know that even in tough times, we can still taste and see that the Lord is good as long as we remain in Him and never let go.

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Wherever there is complete confidence of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope.
 
Hope emanates from having a purpose that you long for or desire. God gives humanity the sense to live righteously through His vision and hopes to be accepted by Him when judgment day comes. Prayer is founded on faith; one must have hope in God's promises to find faith. When you hope for something, you pray that God hears your struggles and blessings. This article will expound on theological definition, biblical foundation, and practical application of hope and prayer.
 
Theological Definition And The Biblical Hope 
Bible study tools define hope as trust in, waiting for, looking for, or desiring someone or something; or to expect something beneficial in the future. You can say hope is the starting point on the map; you look forward to your future endeavors. 

Ordinarily, when one expresses hope, he is expressing doubt. But this is not the specific biblical meaning of hope. The Scripture states that Biblical hope is not just a desire for something good in the future, but rather, biblical hope is a passion and confident expectation for something good in the future. Biblical hope not only wishes something extraordinary for the future; it awaits to happen. And it not only awaits for it to happen; it is confident that it will happen. The moral certainty is that the good you expect and desire will be done.

However, hoping in God does not come naturally for sinners like you. You must preach it to yourself and preach diligently and forcefully, or you will give way to a downcast and disquieted spirit.
 
Scriptural Evidence
The Scriptural evidence begins in Hebrews 6:9–12. Apostle Paul warns his readers that it is possible for people who have had miraculous religious experiences to apostasy and go beyond the point of no return. He then says, "Though we speak thus, in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation. This is because God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love you showered for His sake in serving the saints, as you still do. And they desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full confidence of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through patience and faith inherit the promises."

Now comes the warning in verses 11 and 12 to not become sluggish and press on. But now, the battle is characterized in terms of hope, not just in terms of service and love. Having all the zeal of the past, one must pursue the full assurance of hope to the end. There is no fight, quest, challenge, or war more urgent than this. Keep your hope hot!

Similarly, Lisare's book talks about Strengthening hope and faith in The Other Side Of Fear, from having low self-esteem, abuse, and crippling fear to knowing the ultimate love of God. Author W. Veronica Lisare has discovered courage, joy, hope, freedom, and fulfillment as she embraces her original identity as a daughter of Jesus Christ. 
 
The Connection Between Faith And Hope
Is there a relationship between full assurance of faith and complete confidence of hope? Faith is the more significant idea, and hope is essential to Biblical faith. Hope is that part of faith that centers on the future. Biblically, you can call it hope when faith is directed to the end. But faith can concentrate on the past and the present, so faith is the more extensive term. You can check this in Hebrews 11:1. This is the closest thing you have to a definition of faith in all of the New Testament.

Faith is the confidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Meaning wherever there is full assurance of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope. Biblical faith is a confident desire and expectation for amazing things in the future.

However, faith is more than that. It is also the belief of things not seen, and some of these are not the future. Faith can look backward (to creation) as well as forward. So faith is the more significant idea. It covers hope but is more than hope. You can also say faith is one's confidence in God's Word. Thus, you can call their confidence in its hope whenever that word references the future. Hope is faith in the future tense.
 
Concluding Words
Placing hope in God, you pray that He hears and answers your prayers. In hope people find their faith, prayer strengthens your faith in God, and through prayer, you place your life in God's hands, for He will show you the future.