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How Can I Become God’s Friend?Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work, Volume 2
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There’s another aspect of your friendship with God that you shouldn’t ignore. The psalmist David wrote: “Taste and see that Jehovah is good.” (Psalm 34:8) When David composed the 34th Psalm, he had just been through a frightening experience. He was on the run from murderous King Saul—a harrowing ordeal in itself. But then he had to take refuge among his enemies the Philistines. Faced with what seemed to be certain death, David cleverly disguised his sanity and was able to get away.—1 Samuel 21:10-15.
David didn’t attribute his narrow escape to his own ingenuity. Instead, he gave credit to Jehovah. Earlier in the psalm mentioned above, he wrote: “I inquired of Jehovah, and he answered me, and out of all my frights he delivered me.” (Psalm 34:4) It was from personal experience, then, that David could urge others to “taste and see that Jehovah is good.”a
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How Can I Become God’s Friend?Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work, Volume 2
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a Some Bibles render the phrase “taste and see” as “discover for yourself,” “find out for yourself,” and “by experience you will see.”—Contemporary English Version, Today’s English Version, and The Bible in Basic English.
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