So many of us here (myself included) recited this verse and sang those songs for years, or even decades, yet never connected to the personal “yummy goodness” of our God.

When I sang them before my encounter with the Holy Spirit, it was like I was singing about some goodness that was incomprehensible and esoteric – that His goodness was irrelevant to our hearts, our emotions, our experiences. I think I thought God’s goodness fell into the category of “His ways are not our ways”, which effectively removed His defining trait of being good from my personal world, and turned Him into someone unpleasant, like a medicine that is good for us, rather than Someone who is actually pleasant to the taste and the heart.

Glad to say, I’ve come to know His yummy goodness, His delicious, emotionally satisfying love, and now those songs all sing different.