1 Peter 2:3

1 Peter 2:3 ‘if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord'

‘if' -or since. The tense of the verb reveals that Peter is assuming that they have.

‘tasted the kindness of the Lord' -‘Tasted'-Feel, try, experience. ‘found by experience that the Lord is kind' (TCNT). ‘Kindness'-Every Christian has experienced that God is extremely kind, for God has forgiven their sins and has even adopted them as His own children (Galatians 4:4). Psalms 34:8 ‘O taste and see that the Lord is good'.

POINTS TO NOTE: 1. Here we find additional motivation to desire the Word of God. For we have already experienced that God is very kind in our redemption. That should motivate us to come back for more of His teaching. What other great and kind things does He have in store for us? 2. ‘to read or listen to Scripture is to hear the Lord speak, to take his good and nourishing words into one's heart. To drink…the Word is to ‘taste' again and again what he is like….Moreover, those words give direction into the “good” paths of life (1 Peter 3:10); and give promises of his continued “goodness” in time of need (2 Peter 1:4).' (Grudem pp. 96-97) 3. This means, if we have. hard time getting motivated to read the Bible, and to read with enjoyment, or to pray to God, then we have never really appreciated what God did for us. Failure to grow, is failure to appreciate your salvation (2 Peter 1:9). ‘That person who trusts in the Lord enough to be obedient to his will finds. pleasant and enjoyable experience.' (Hamilton p. 68) In contrast, the ‘taste' of the world is. very bitter experience (Titus 3:3; Romans 6:21).

Living Stones And. Spiritual House:

‘Peter uses extensive Old Testament imagery to show that New Testament believers (both Jew and Gentile) are in fact. new “people of God” who have come to possess all the blessings of Old Testament Israel but in far greater measure.' (Grudem p. 97)