Have you ever played hide and seek? Have you ever looked for me and thought that I was hiding from you? Yet you have my promise that if you seek me you will find me if you search for me with all your heart. There is a beneficial purpose in the process of seeking. Would you like a clue? I told you that inasmuch as you were kind unto the least of these you were doing it unto me. Is this what you expected? Do you see my presence in the poor, the downtrodden and discouraged, the sick and disabled and rejected? Behold I am with you always, and the poor you have with you always as well.

Do you realize that I lived my entire life on earth in a country occupied by an aggressive foreign military power? How much of my ministry focused on this issue? One of my followers would have liked me to give this more emphasis, but my message was about the Kingdom of God rather than about the kingdoms of this world. When the question was put to me at the end of my life I said that my kingdom was not of this world. If it were my followers would have fought for me, but they did not. You are my follower also. What lessons and guidance do you draw from this about involvement in politics?

Do you pray? Do you gossip? Do you do both at the same time? Have you ever gone to a prayer meeting and found out all the juicy details of scandals and sins and shortcomings of others that you had no idea of previously? Some things should only be shared with select individuals whom you can trust the carry the burden with grace and this probably doesn’t apply to everyone in your prayer meeting. The Bible teaches you that I know what you have need of when you come to me, so you don’t need to spend your prayer time filling me in on the details.

My word tells you to taste and see that I am good. Your senses work at different ranges. You can see the stars at astronomical distances. You can hear sounds over a range of distances depending on the volume, but it takes a large impulse to be heard at over a mile. Smell works at closer range depending on the substance and concentration, and touch requires contact although this may be brief and fleeting. The most intimate sense you have is that of taste, and that is the one I chose to use in this passage to describe the closeness of relationship I want with you. How do I taste to you?