How to Know What is Good
Submitted by Hunter Grills
July 8, 2025
Job 34:3-4 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Sometimes, we have difficulty distinguishing what is best. However, for a Christian, we should easily discern between good and bad, light and darkness, godliness and wickedness. God’s Word gives us wisdom, and it is described in 2 Peter 1:19 as, “a light that shineth in a dark place.”
Our text verse uses the example of the mouth tasting meat. Our appetite and desires influence our taste and preferences. I have personally experienced this from a cultural perspective while visiting various homes.
An example is that the children in Costa Rica do not like Southern sweet tea or biscuits and gravy. If you’re from the South, you recognize these as essentials for survival. Costa Ricans are accustomed to rice and beans for breakfast; therefore, their desires reflect such.
Spiritually speaking, we need to have a proper diet and proper desires to influence us toward things that are good. If we fill our ears full of wicked music or eyes with junk on television, we are not balanced.
A hunger and thirst for righteousness will result in fulfillment of such. Mt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
If we continually desire godliness and righteousness, the wickedness of this world will begin lose its enticement. Our taste will grow toward the things of God our Creator rather than the gods of this world that cannot be pleased.
Ps 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Reflection—Citizens of Heaven have a taste for the things of Heaven.
