God is
good!–all the time. From the beginning
of time God has demonstrated His goodness.
God proclaimed daily creation acts as being good in Genesis 1. Though the reality of sin has invited badness
into time, each day still contains the goodness of God. We are given time on earth to take in God’s
goodness. Psalm 34:1 says: I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.
Each
day is full of goodness. Sometimes you
just need to stop and think before you can find the good that He sends into
your life on a daily basis. Losing faith
in the goodness of God is the beginning of sickness of soul. Souls that can’t see God’s goodness begin to
search for pleasure, work, wisdom, power, and many other remedies from the
world. It is only the goodness of God
that will satisfy a soul. A day without
recognizing the goodness of God is a day wasted.
King Solomon wrote: When times
are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the
other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future (Ecclesiastes 7:14). As I begin each day and I think back on the
twenty-four hour period that just past, I remember and write down the ways in
which I saw God’s goodness to me. This
has become a life-giving spiritual discipline that encourages my soul. It’s easy to allow the hard realities of life
to weigh us down. We may not even think
we are going through a particularly difficult time. It’s just the everyday
getting the bills paid, food made, and making it to work on time efforts that
desensitize us to the tiny treasures each day holds. If you can’t see your God-gifts in each day
of time, it will affect your soul.
God is good
all the time, but we only notice it some of the time. My spiritual practice helps me take in time
in a different way. I start the day
thinking about the time I just lived—the past twenty-four hours. At first time seems ordinary. Nothing really stands out. Sometimes it has been a particularly hard
day. But every day, every measure of
time has something good hidden inside. I
guess I wanted to prove a point to myself as I am writing it to you, so I went
to my calendar from last year and looked up the worst day of that year (it was
pretty bad), and there I wrote about a true gift of God. In the midst of the darkness, God showed me
His goodness. He gave me a moment for
which to be truly grateful.
It’s easy
to waste time by wishing for what that measure of time did not bring or by
overlooking what good it did give. God
is good all the time. His goodness will
never lapse. It is up to us to find the
goodness of God in the time we are given.
Copyright 2015.
Deborah R Newman teatimeforyoursoul.com
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