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A Solid Foundation
my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Ps. 119:103).
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!” (Ps. 34:8). This
is a real seeing and tasting. It is not make believe. It sees
and tastes what is really there.
YES TO THE ROCK OF OUR COMFORT
So when Jesus says, “Scripture cannot be broken” (John
10:35), and when the apostle Paul says, “All Scripture is
breathed out by God” (2 Tim. 3:16), and when the apostle
Peter says, the authors of Scripture “were carried along
by the Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21), our heart says yes. We
have tasted and seen. We know. And the knowing is well
founded. We are not leaping in the dark.
Our whole soul resonates with the biblical shout “The
sum of your word is truth” (Ps. 119:160). “Forever, O Lord,
your word is firmly fixed in the heavens” (Ps. 119:89).
“Every word of God proves true” (Prov. 30:5).
When this happens, the whole truth of God washes
over us, even in the face of the coronavirus. It comes with
incomparable comfort: “When the cares of my heart are
many, your consolations cheer my soul” (Ps. 94:19). “The
Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed
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