Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

How many of us make the connection between this verse and the Lord’s Supper? Not many I would guess and you would not be alone in that. Many who followed Jesus while He walked in His earthly ministry, while He stood and taught before them, also had difficulty making the connection.

John 6:56 & 60 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Being that those men were of a generation who were by law denied the flesh and blood of the sacrifice. It was contrary to their laws and religious rituals to consider such a thing. How could they understand how to keep the law and partake of this bread of life? After all they were only trying to follow after those things that came before them. In verse 66 many of them stopped following Jesus.

What happened to them after they saw the risen Christ? Could they then see and hear and understand as the deeper things were revealed to them?

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

We are so blessed to get to see all these things explained in the scriptures and made pain to our understanding by the gospel.  Yet there are some who like the Jews of that day, cannot see how they can taste the Lord to see that He is good. They have their own reasons of which there are many.

Hebrews 12:1b let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,

You cannot get to it until you get over it.

Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

I have this photograph of a mountain in Glacier National Park that I use as wallpaper for my computer. It is a monument of time and how the elements expose its structure, layer upon layer, revealing how this great rock came into being.

There are some curious colors to certain layers. They are very pronounced, distinctive, and easy to remember. As we traveled around North America we would see this same layer of color within the exposed rocks of other mountain ranges. It was consistent to the extent that it was obvious that whatever happened to cause this layer was universal, that it happened everywhere you looked.

How curious it is to look at that mountain and seen layer upon lay which have only slight and insignificant variations which blended together so well that only a close examination could indicate the formation of one line upon another. There they were, layer upon layer of consistent, repetitive occurrences and then the sudden drastic color shift, a new and different deposit upon the history of time.

This mountain so accurately represents the Word of God in its formation and revelation of its creation.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

“Shall ye not know it?” That new thing, the variation, that deposit in history, is significant in that it was for all to see, everywhere.

Revelations 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,