God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good. How many of you have repeated those lines in church before?
But really- God is so good, all the time, and all the time, He is so good. He has been showing me His goodness lately in such unexpected ways. There have been promises from God to me or things that have been on my heart as requests from Him that have been waiting a long time. Lately He has been answering so many of them, some I had even forgotten about! The beauty of it is that almost none have been in the way or in the timing that I had wanted or imagined, but all were answers.
In the waiting and through the trials of life it’s so easy to get bitter and think that God is not near or doesn’t care because what we want out of life doesn’t usually happen in the way or timing we want or imagine it to be. How many times have we (I) been guilty of that?! More then I wish to admit to. But looking back, even just over the last couple years, it’s been incredible to really see how God works things for my benefit in His timing and in His way. He is so good.
I just graduated from college and moved home, so life has been changing a lot recently. But the biggest part is not all the new things, new place, new job, etc; the biggest things are all the things that have finished and closed. Looking back over my last couple years away, God and I have been on a rollercoaster ride- some good places and some not so good. There was joy, pain, peace, frustration, bitterness, love, confusion, clarity, everything you can imagine basically sums up my last two years. But in the end, most of my heart’s desires for my time away were answered, many just recently. In the end though, it all comes down to God is good. When I was so angry that God brought me to Buffalo, NY to spend two years there, God was good. When I was bitter and frustrated that I was in a city I didn’t like without people I knew, God was good. When I was loving life and loving my job and school, God was good. He never left, I was never out of His sight or out of His plan, even when I couldn’t see Him, He was always there and He was always good.
So I just want to challenge you, if you are reading this and you don’t see God and you don’t feel like He is good because He seems distant and uncaring, He is right next to you and He is good. He is faithful to bring to completion the things that He has begun in you (Phil 1:6) and loves to give you the desires of your heart (Ps 37:4). He is good when life is crazy and when it makes sense. Trust Him, lean on Him, He is the only one you can trust in that will never leave you nor forsake you. Life may look a mess and confusing, He is good. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Eph 3:19), He has so much in store for you!
Be Blessed
