0 Taste and see that the LORD is good. Psalm 34:8
Two professors were discussing the ingredients in a barrel of honey. A little boy standing by stuck his hand into the honey, tasted it and said, “Suck it and see.” That’s the bottom line. Your experience is not at the mercy of someone’s argument. Remember, it’s your experience with God, not theirs. Saul of Tarsus had to be blinded and thrown to the ground in a lifechanging confrontation with Jesus. Gideon was hiding in a cave when he met the Lord and heard these words, “Surely I will be with thee” (Judges 6:16). Isaiah had an entirely different experience, “In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple” (Isaiah 6: 1 ).
Don’t try to pour someone else into the mold of your experience. And don’t cast doubt on their experience with the Lord because it’s different from yours. No two of us are alike. Remember, if any two of us were alike, one of us would be unnecessary. God knows what you need. When John saw the Lord on the isle of Patmos, he “fell at his feet as dead” (Revelation 1: 17). Our experiences with the Lord will each be different. You don’t have to understand somebody else’s experience-so long as it produces the fruit of the Spirit and makes Jesus Lord in their lives. That’s the end of all arguments.
