He is GOOD!

God is Good  

If you ask people in today's society what they think about God's goodness, you would be met with many differing views.  So many seem to think that because they do not understand what is happening in their life that God must not be good; that if hard times come, that God cannot really be good. 

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord.

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As the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9

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God declares through the hand of Isaiah that His 'ways are higher than (my) ways'.  I may not always understand why God has chosen to have certain things come my way, but that doesn't make His ways wrong.  God is still good  even if hard time come!

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"for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances....

 I can do all this through him who gives me strength."

Philippians 4:11, 13

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I find encouragement through what God did in Paul's life.  Paul knew what it was like to have much, and to have little.  He was a prominent man in his society and was well-liked.  He, at another time in his life, was also hated by most and went without.  God showed him what it was like to be content regardless of his circumstances, and He relied on God for the strength he needed.  And God was faithful to supply him with that strength he!  God, through the life of Paul, expressed His goodness.

Knowing of God's goodness has transformed our lives.  It's given us hope when we had none.  It's given us strength when we were weak.  God's goodness is a solid rock that we have landed on time and time again, and yet our hearts break.

Why?

Our hearts break for those who do not know his goodness, who cannot know it.  There are people, like you and me, who cannot understand God's goodness because they do not have His Word in their language!  There are those who, year after year, live in fear of spirits.  Those who, every day, have all they do revolve around keeping spirits happy as to not be tormented or punished by them...those who do not know of the joy that comes from God's goodness!

Our prayer is that they will know.  That those who have already been given this hope will come together and see God's Word taken to those who do not yet have it!  

God is good and they need to know!