Have I found out yet that the goodness of God tastes better than the malice of men?

(1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV) So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. (2) Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation– (3) if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Why are television shows that are filled with malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander and pay back so appealing? Why does sex sell? Why do we cling to those realities, follow the cast of characters, envy the ruthless and immoral?

We are hungry and thirsty for something more than we have.

I am trying to not sound like an old fuddy-duddy, and I am struggling to articulate this but if I can and you can see the scene through the window I am trying to describe, I believe you will be impacted.

We must see that God tastes better than anything else.

We cannot deny the appeal of a sinful lifestyle, but somehow we have to find a reference point, something that is better, longer-lasting.

Malice, deceit, revenge, sex have a natural appeal, or good taste to our sinful nature. Maybe our lives are still empty, and we are still hungry, but if only we could taste these things as some people are allowed to do, then our thirst would be quenched, our appetite satisfied? Maybe if I were a rock star, movie celebrity, professional athlete.

Nope. No, no, no.

We can’t deny the appeal of sin.

Somehow we must taste God, and that longing for what is forever best will help us win out over a brief pleasure.

God’s truth is forever, so are we going to cling to our world defined by malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander or are we going to long for pure spiritual milk — the eternal words of God?

Peter wrote “if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

God tastes better than the world so put away all that bad tasting stuff. But maybe you don’t know that God tastes better than the malice and envy that you feed off of daily?

Maybe we could put it this way:

Have I found out yet that the goodness of God tastes better than the malice of men?

TO BE CONTINUED. . . hopefully 🙂

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