God is Good

I woke up in the morning, dress up, spend the day and sleep in the evening. For the next days, I up in the morning, dress up, spend the day and sleep in the evening again. The daily routine is just repeated all over again. If you were to remember a specific day, you would find it hard to pinpoint it since all are just the same. We remember the days with unforgettable experiences. They are the days with unusual situations. Not only positive but also negative things like problems and troubles make us remember the days.

Problems make days unforgettable. Problems remind us of days when we are helpless and we then remember God. After trying and failing to solve our own problems, we desperately come to God. We remember God this way. Instead of being the first, we approach God as our last resort to unsolvable problems.

It should be enough that we are given each day to live in order to remember God. In each day we spend, we should be thankful that nothing bad happened to us. It is seldom that we give thanks to Him for our daily routines in life. However, when something bad happens, we remember and often come to blame Him.

It is so easy for us to believe that the Lord can do everything. Well, that’s not debatable since He is God. Another thing that is easy to believe in is that God knows best since He knows everything. But then, as pointed by Jerry Bridges in his book “Trusting God”, it is hard for us to believe that God is good especially when something terrible happens to us or to our love ones. We ask, “How can God who knows everything and can do everything such situations to happen?”

Job the prophet, experienced such condition and didn’t understood his situation. He came to struggle with God and God said to him, “Where were you when I created the earth?” Can anyone answer God if asked this kind of question? We are blessed to the life He has given to us.

God knows all that we aren’t able to know what His plans are. He doesn’t even need to explain to us. In His goodness, He won’t allow something that’s not on His good plans. He has plans to prosper us and not to harm us. God is a Father that disciplines His sons.

It seems reasonable or us to rage against God when something terrible happens but…it is a sign of misdirection. It is a sign of being not mature in relationship with Him. It is hard to accept the truth that He is good after all the bad things happening around. Anyway, whether we believe that God is good or not doesn’t change the fact that He is good.

We have developed relationship with God if beyond our circumstances, whether good or bad, we are not swayed to the fact that God is good. Trusting God develops trough time by knowing Him more. We come to know God if we read His word, the Scriptures and are having fellowship with other believers.

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