he will never taste of

A week later and I'm back in the senses saddle. In case you forgot where we left off: we stink. I know for sure about me, and I'm only guessing about you -- but it's a good guess. In any case, which of the other four shall we hit on today? Well, considering I'm craving that chocolate cream pie downstairs (soon to be not downstairs), let's try taste. Sounds odd to think we have a taste -- and maybe we don't since I've got nothing on this right now. But a concordance later, and let's see what we've got.

* 32 references to "taste". That's about 32 more than I thought there'd be.
* The first few in the OT deal with taste of crackers, honey, food. Nothing. The next few make it a verb -- but again, nothing.
* Ps 34 (the hymn not the school) gives us the first indication that this is more than an untamed V-flyer hunt. It's an invitation to sample the goodness of God -- partaking of His blessing as your very nourishment, but sumptuous not basic. Ps 119 repeats the usage but applies it now to itself, the Word.
* Jumping to the NT we get another goody -- the salt reference and all of that symbolism. No need to be redundant here.
* We get five, count'em FIVE references to tasting death. Odd in that death is a permanent thing, but tasting is by definition just a hint of the larger. The warning being used frice (thrice=three, frice=five -- work with me here) in the NT implies you can sample the larger. I'll call it here: tasting death is enjoying the tinny tang of sin and separation.
* We get a few more NT refs of sampling kindness, goodness, and gifts. The opposite of tinny tang.
* A Communion link? Hmmm. Something brewing, maybe.

Thesis: Since we're not part of this place, and since we haven't gotten to our place, we can't ever get the whole thing. It's bits for us right now. Those bits can either hint of the larger bitterness, or hint of the sweeter whole. There's an extension here if you can make the (hopefully) non-blasphemous cannibalism link but I don't even venture to try. Let's leave it with what we've got.