Daily Devotional
Are You Willing to Pay the Price?

September 25, 2022

Ponder This

How should we understand today’s verse? Think of it this way. You go to the supermarket and back in the dairy section there's a table out with little squares of cheese. Each little square of cheese has a toothpick. You go and pick up that cheese and taste it. If you're a cheese hound you might say, “Hey, that is really terrific cheese. I want two pounds of it.” So, they wrap up two pounds, and you go to the checkout stand, and you’re watching as she drags that cheese over the scanner. Then you see a number come up there, and you say, “Oh wait a minute, what’s that?” She says it’s the cheese. You say, “You’ve got to be kidding. That? You expect me to pay that much money for that cheese?” She says, “Well that’s a rare cheese. That’s imported cheese. That’s very expensive cheese. I thought you wanted it?” So, you say, “Well I thought I did too, but I didn’t know what it cost. Put it back.”

In this scenario, you’re an individual who has tasted the cheese. You’ve sniffed it. You know what it is. You’ve rolled it around on your tongue. You are aware of exactly what you are doing, but you say, “I will not pay that price,” and you walk out. You refuse with your eyes wide open, and that’s your privilege. The Bible is telling us here that those who do the same with the truth of the Gospel are in great danger.

• How has your life been changed by “tasting” the Word of God?
• What are ways you are tempted to neglect or reject the Word of God?

Practice This

Read Psalm 34:8. Work to memorize this verse as a reminder of the worth of following God.