Spiritual Taste – Charles Spurgeon

MANY who see the dainties of God’s Word pass them by. Like those poor hungry children that we have seen standing outside a shop where the savory meat is just within the window: they can see it and smell it, but they cannot eat thereof. Many of our hearers have sense enough to perceive that there is something in the Bible that is very satisfying and nourishing; they see it with their eyes, but, like the men of Samaria, they taste not of it themselves. Ay, and there are some who are so far gone—and we were such once—that they have no wish to taste, for their palate has become so depraved that they feed upon ashes, a deceived heart turning them aside. Like the raven, which has no longing for the clean feeding of the dove, they are content with the carrion of the world; like the swine, they are satisfied with the husks, and they pine not to be fed with the children’s bread.