O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
David celebrates a signal deliverance: when he fled to King Achish of Gath, whom he reckoned his deadliest enemy after Saul, he feigned madness to escape certain death. That God granted him escape contrary to all expectation shows a memorable instance of His favor, fit for the instruction of the whole Church.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-22
You cannot know the Lord's goodness by report alone; you must taste it yourself through living, vital participation in His grace. Faith is the soul's taste, and those who test the Lord by their confidence always find Him good and become themselves blessed.
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We cannot justify David's dissimulation; it ill became an honest man to feign himself a fool and madman. Yet what strikes us is the composure of his spirit even in that danger: his heart was so fixed, trusting in God, that he penned this excellent psalm with all the marks of a calm, sedate spirit.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-10