God Is A Good God
Have you seen the Goodness of the Lord? Yes, this is a trick question. The question should be: Have you chosen to see the Goodness of the Lord in your life today and every day?
The dictionary defines goodness as kindness, benevolence, charity, favor shown, compassion, mercy. Benevolence is defined as the disposition to do good; the love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness; possessing love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness.
When we talk about God’s goodness, we are speaking about His love for us that desires the best for us in our lives. Prosperity and health and happiness and abundance are continually on His mind for us. He is ever seeking ways to bless us with all that He has. Now this is a God that not too many people see. Instead they see God based upon how they are doing in the earth. They measure God’s goodness by the earthly scale of what is happening to them at the moment.
God’s Word is true, regardless of what is happening to you. If you and I are not seeing His Word operating in our lives, it is not an indicator of His goodness. It is an indicator of our inability to receive or to understand how to receive what God has stored up for us to enjoy on a daily basis. God is no respecter of persons and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. If He did it for one person, He does it for all. What we have to discern is this: What is holding up God’s goodness operating in my life? The Holy Spirit will tell us if we ask Him and are willing to hear what He has to say to us and change.
Let’s look at some scriptures on God’s goodness. Meditate on these scriptures until you know that you know that God is good to you, that God loves you without measure and wants to shower you with His goodness.
Psalm 31:19 Amplified Bible
Oh how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere, and worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men!
God has laid up His goodness for us. He has stored it up as treasure for us to enjoy.
In Psalm 107 we read these words over and over. O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever. In verses 8, 15, 21, and 31 of this chapter we read this: Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
It looks like God wants us to praise Him for His goodness. Every day we are to thank the Lord for His goodness. Every day we are to be grateful to Him and for Him.
In Romans 2:4 we read about the riches of His goodness that leads us to repentance. Yes, it is the love and kindness of God that leads us down that path of repentance straight into His loving arms. He rushes up to us and says: Oh, son/daughter welcome home. I have been waiting for you. Here, put on these beautiful clothes that mark you as a member of the household. Put this ring on your finger and let me shod your feet with these shoes.
God is so good! In Exodus 34:6 we are told that God is abundant in goodness and mercy. His goodness is unending and forever. There is no limit or end to it. He has enough for you and me and every other human being on this earth. There is more than enough to go around.
Choose today to see yourself partaking of His goodness. Speak it out: God is so good to me. His goodness is overtaking me minute by minute. He is good to me. God is a good God. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
The dictionary defines goodness as kindness, benevolence, charity, favor shown, compassion, mercy. Benevolence is defined as the disposition to do good; the love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness; possessing love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness.
When we talk about God’s goodness, we are speaking about His love for us that desires the best for us in our lives. Prosperity and health and happiness and abundance are continually on His mind for us. He is ever seeking ways to bless us with all that He has. Now this is a God that not too many people see. Instead they see God based upon how they are doing in the earth. They measure God’s goodness by the earthly scale of what is happening to them at the moment.
God’s Word is true, regardless of what is happening to you. If you and I are not seeing His Word operating in our lives, it is not an indicator of His goodness. It is an indicator of our inability to receive or to understand how to receive what God has stored up for us to enjoy on a daily basis. God is no respecter of persons and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. If He did it for one person, He does it for all. What we have to discern is this: What is holding up God’s goodness operating in my life? The Holy Spirit will tell us if we ask Him and are willing to hear what He has to say to us and change.
Let’s look at some scriptures on God’s goodness. Meditate on these scriptures until you know that you know that God is good to you, that God loves you without measure and wants to shower you with His goodness.
Psalm 31:19 Amplified Bible
Oh how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere, and worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men!
God has laid up His goodness for us. He has stored it up as treasure for us to enjoy.
In Psalm 107 we read these words over and over. O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever. In verses 8, 15, 21, and 31 of this chapter we read this: Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!
It looks like God wants us to praise Him for His goodness. Every day we are to thank the Lord for His goodness. Every day we are to be grateful to Him and for Him.
In Romans 2:4 we read about the riches of His goodness that leads us to repentance. Yes, it is the love and kindness of God that leads us down that path of repentance straight into His loving arms. He rushes up to us and says: Oh, son/daughter welcome home. I have been waiting for you. Here, put on these beautiful clothes that mark you as a member of the household. Put this ring on your finger and let me shod your feet with these shoes.
God is so good! In Exodus 34:6 we are told that God is abundant in goodness and mercy. His goodness is unending and forever. There is no limit or end to it. He has enough for you and me and every other human being on this earth. There is more than enough to go around.
Choose today to see yourself partaking of His goodness. Speak it out: God is so good to me. His goodness is overtaking me minute by minute. He is good to me. God is a good God. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 2:43 PM
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