Our Divinely Designed Tastes

The creation of food, tongues, and the human digestive system is the product of infinite wisdom knitting the world together in a harmonious whole. The symphony of glory that sounds from the triune being contains notes of corn salsa and Sour Patch Kids, of sweet tea and rye bread (the kind that fills the belly). The variety of tastes creates categories and gives us edible images of divine things. “Taste and see that the LORD is good!” (Ps. 34:8).

Our sense of hunger and thirst are divinely designed to highlight the soul’s hunger for spiritual food: “Whoever comes to me shall not…