Some people eat. Some people taste.
Some people endure life. Some people enjoy life.
I don't want to endure, I want to enjoy. We can choose goodness in life, of life. We don't have control of anything that happens to us, but we can control the perspective we choose to view life by.
To savor means, "to give oneself to the enjoyment of."
I want to savor life. I want to savor moments. I want to savor God. I want to choose to see all the things in my life as something that is a gift and give myself to the enjoyment of it. For example, I can choose to see my job as something I have to do. Or I can see my job as something I get to do.
And it's true with every other area of life. Even the problems. I can either see it as a gift cause it's shaping me into the image of Christ, so I will rejoice in my sufferings. Or I can see it as a burden, so I will complain and wish it away.
To enjoy, to experience to the fullest means to finalize and seal the enjoyment with PRAISE. To savor completely is to praise God. To see the beauty in situations, in experiences, and in other people, in the now, in the moment, in the present and thank God for it.
CS Lewis says, "All enjoyment spontaneously flows into praise... You, see we love to praise things we enjoy because praise is not just the expression of that joy, but also the completion of it. Our praise for God must overflow out of our joy in God. To praise God is to enjoy him to the fullest."
I can enjoy, savor, and delight in God when I believe that he delights in me.
We see this is true when we look to the cross, where Jesus exchanged his place of enjoyment in God for a place of suffering apart from God... for us. So that we could have the free, yet costly gift of salvation. And with that comes the choice to delight in, to enjoy and to savor life in Christ with God.
