Good Morning! Grab something warm to drink on this cold morning and spend some time meditating on Exodus 33:18-23; Psalm 34:8, Nahum 1:7 James 1:17 as we focus on the goodness of God.
Give thanks to the LORD for He is good! Taste and see that the Lord is good. Scripture is filled with the description of the goodness of the Lord. All that He is and all that He does is good. He is incapable of being anything other than good. His goodness is infinitely beyond our capacity to grasp and it is unchanging. He was good, is good, and always will be good. He is good when things are good. He is good when things are not good. Our circumstances do not change His goodness.“God is good” is something I often hear when people are relieved to have avoided a near catastrophe. But even if the worst happens God’s goodness remains. When David wrote Psalm 34 he was in the midst of suffering. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous” David says in the psalm but he also says “Oh taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”It is much easier to taste and see that the Lord is good when life is going well. But we can also taste and see that the Lord is good in the midst of calamity. We can experience the goodness of God in all circumstances when we see our circumstances through the eyes of faith. Rather than seeing our God through the lens of our circumstances, we see the circumstances through the lens of the goodness of God and know that He is at work in us through the suffering and that He is the place of refuge in the midst of difficulty.So today, give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever!
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