Somehow my mind didn’t read as quick today, it simply didn’t follow the pace of my eyes. Good is good… ummm…yeah better, I said. Then I glance at it again and again; it was written as God is good.
The word good seems to be sweet almost wherever it is or was. It takes the eye and the mind. And that is the reason why I glance at it more than once although my mind didn’t get it at one go. To gain something from I should spend time and absorb what I could.
Now, Good things; we wanted to read about, to see, to feel, to let it happen in our life. We all work hard to achieve it although our success level may differ. But as much as we worked hard we are to wait patiently.
It might seem absurd in both ways, yet we mistook good things as God and bad things as punishment from God’s wrath. They both came from God; but with a purpose. The good and the bad effects our emotion, our life, and our thinking.
The happenings of unprecedented sadness and happiness can rejuvenates and revitalize, and/or consume and kill, the purpose of living. So we need to take refuge in the Lord’s dwelling place.
Our perceptions are not God; he is way beyond that. Yet we are tempted not to go beyond our limited perceptions because we are all wise people, now a days!
We kept contented at what we find it to be good, our job, our living, our status, which superseded God and our relation with him.
Good things come from God:
Psalms 127 in the bible points us to where good things come from. Without God everything, our toiling for the day and night, are in vain, it says. I saw many who doesn’t believe in it; yet I don’t blame them as it’s hard to talk for someone else’s place.
Some say they are good without God. I have seen them say it, they are good now as that is what they can see. They can reason a lot, they are wise people, I respected them. Yet there will be time for all to realized the theory of everything.
To the extent, we can understand we stick at that, what we find it to be good, but God is far beyond that, beyond the measure of the timid mind. What is good for us, if it doesn’t come from God, would create furore, conflict, and annoy others.
Good things could destroy us:
Blessings comes in different way. Some don’t even know they are blesses until it was taken. Yet some are thankful to God, bringing them closer each day. Some people, even though, in their sufferings and sadness, they still saw the goodness of God.
When our focus is only to the good things, here refer to as blessings, it tends to destroy us. First, our relation with God. Second, our innate being and outward appearance or approach. And then third, our relations with other people.
‘Give good things to your enemy they will fall by themselves,’ says one proverb. Blessings without God is like holding a knife to kill ourselves.
Try me and know I am Good:
In order to trust better and to thrive better while abiding in him, we often been through unwelcome periods. Some are constant, it doesn’t go away, some are for a moment yet the Lord had send it too.
In those moments, of difficulties and sadness, is God not good? He wanted us to trust in him wholeheartedly. So that we’d trust more of Him and his works although much of the time it is hard to bear with.
What is he referring to when he said this? “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” (Luke 6:38) And it is the same God who promised blessings in Malachi 3:16.
God is good and his love endures forever, says the Bible. (Psalms 100:5, 1 Chronicles 16:34) So let us not simply lose hope but try to taste the goodness of God.
God alone is Good:
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (Psalms 84:11)
God is good; he has eyes all over us. He never missed to help us, keep us in his care. He led us to the green pasture and lead us besides still waters. (Psalms 23)
In the very word Jesus Christ let us read: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” (Mark 10:18)
God is good, it doesn’t stopped here. It is followed by ‘all the time’. So, God is good all the time!
Good is not God; but God is good!
