The 5 Senses Project

Touch

Sight

Hearing

Smell

Taste

 

“Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us.” ⁽¹⁾ 

 

One’s sense of taste is usually broken down into the perception of four different tastes: salty, sweet, sour and bitter. There is also a fifth taste, defined as savory. Taste is sensed in the taste buds. Adults have 2,000 to 4,000 taste buds. Most of them are on the tongue, but they also line the back of the throat, the epiglottis, the nasal cavity and the esophagus. We have sensory cells that form capsules that have pores that work like funnels with tiny taste hairs. Proteins on the hairs bind chemicals to the cells for tasting. The smell of the food greatly affects how the brain perceives the taste. Smells are sent to the mouth in a process called olfactory referral. This is why someone with a stuffy nose may have trouble tasting food properly.

Psalm 34 is a Davidic psalm that speaks of God as his provider and deliverer. The 8th verse says, “Taste & see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.” When we speak of someone who is good, we speak of someone who exhibits the following qualities: upright, of moral excellence, benevolent, kind, worthy of respect, honorable, competent, reliable, true, genuine or real. Is it any wonder Jesus said in the gospels: "Why do you call me good?" "No one is good--except God alone.” We are frail & broken vessels, especially in comparison to a Holy God. But we are loved without condition in spite of our weaknesses & failings. 

For all those who have tasted of the goodness of the Lord, their life shall never be the same. It may not be a perfect life by their own standards, but it will be a complete life, because our Lord completes us. He is the period at the end of the sentence. Once forgiveness is received it’s all up hill from there. Don’t be like Lot’s wife, who looked longingly back as everything she valued in life burned. The Hebrew defines “looking back” as much more than a glance. For her disobedience she was turned to a pillar of salt & was no more. Don’t be like Lot’s wife. Once you taste of God’s forgiveness, mercy and kindness, you must surely realize the past holds nothing for you any longer. Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing.

Richard Keller

Bread of Life Ministries