Psalms 118:28-29 (ESV Strong's)
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!
The Lord is Good
Not everything that happens in our life is good. We, of course, don’t always see the bigger plan behind what is happening in our life. We might not realize that what is happened IS good. We just frame it poorly in our minds and therefore see it as bad. God tells us that we weaves all things good for us in our lives to His glory:
Romans 8:28 (ESV Strong's)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
So, when we have circumstances and situations in our lives that don’t seem good, the above verse is a good thing to mediate upon. God is using all things (all the bad that comes into our life via our own sin and/or the sin of others) to make it good for His glory. Why? Because God is good ... always. We are to give thanks to God for His goodness and realize, based upon the above verse, that God has perfect, steadfast love and therefor anything He allows in our lives is for His glory ... which, then, makes it good for us. If we can bring God glory via our lives we have fulfilled what we are here for. We might bring God glory by doing some great accomplishment in His power (Moses crosses the Red Sea or David kills the giant Goliath or Joshua defeats Jericho). Or, we might glorify God via our suffering (Job, Elijah, Paul). Nothing that comes into our lives should be deemed bad if we are trusting God to bring His glory into our lives. That is for His praise and His beauty. Even if it is to our hurt and we think it bad, God is still GOOD!!
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