The Psalmist invites us to "taste and see how good the Lord is". The average person may wonder how to "taste the Lord", given that taste is one of the five senses which put us in touch with the external world around us, whereas the Lord is not a physically sensible part of that external world which surrounds us and which we can see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.

Yet the great spiritual masters teach us that our sense experiences can bring us to a sense of the Lord's presence and a deeper understanding of, for example, the various ways in which Jesus describes himself in physical terms: light of the world, Good Shepherd, Gate of the Sheepfold. The Son of God became Emmanuel: God with us and hence perceptible through the human senses, though the man whom his contemporaries saw and heard, touched and had meals with was far more than all that, for as he taught Nicodemus, as "the One comes from heaven" he is above all.

Jesus is not our contemporary in a physical sense but, since he is forever our contemporary Christ, we can experience his presence through faith and prayer and so learn that he is goodness itself.