God’s goodness

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

When I see this promise, there is no doubt in my mind that the Lord Jesus Christ is in control. But when I know that God is smiling down at me, every day, doing what’s best for me, there is no doubt in my mind that in Christ alone will I be satisfied. There is no achievement, possession, or person that can replace the smile of God. This is why God gives me trials. If I was perfect, I wouldn’t need trials. But the fact is that I’m not perfect. I am a depraved, sick sinners being cared for by the great physician who is healing me on His time, not mine.

James 1:2-3

Take joy my brotheren when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith bring about endurance. And let endurance have it’s perfect result that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

It is not that God gives me trials to take away from me, He gives us trials so that He can make me perfect and complete. When I take God’s omniscience for example and desire to know all things, He reveals this through a trial. Or when I take God’s omnipotence and desire to control all things, He reveals this through a trial. God is strong to take these faults and to conform them to His image. As He takes my heart and molds it to His image, I learn to love and to grow as I should. There is no greater joy than this. That as I grow and as I see others grow as well, God is glorified. It was never about my own glorification, but it’s always been about the glorification of God our father. Substituting His glorification for my glorification is a sin, and must be repented of. Which makes me wonder, is heaven on my calendars Is that what I dream about?

In light of eternity, the things of this world fade from view. And I realize that everything will be fulfilled according to God’s perfect will. Even as Christ asked. “Not My will, but yours.” If the Son of Man humbled Himself enough to utter this statement, how much more should I reflect His example? Oh that I would reflect the glory of the gospel! Where is my Maker? Is He not with me every moment of every single day? There is no doubt in my mind that this is true. When my heart loses sight of this my spirit suffers. And my joy is made downcast. Oh that the Joy of the Lord would fill up my mind. That the wood would be laid on my alter and the knife would be drawn. Understanding that the Lord always provides a Ewe. And for believers, it has already been provided. It is the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ. There is no sacrifice that was ever as great as this. No work that was ever so good!

Does my life really reflect this? Or am I talk, but no walk? Do I decisively take steps to make the Lord God my Creator the ruler of all that I am? Not that I am perfect, I will never be perfect until God glorifies me in Christ when I see Him face to face. I want so much to grow in the knowledge of the Father, that my love would be for Him and towards Him alone. Completely magnifying in His grace. To realize my own depravity and fickle heart. My selfishness and my need to deny myself for the sake of others. What is there that I can give? I have nothing to give, but God graciously gives through me. God empowers me to grow. God empowers me to give. There is no God like our God, no God at all!!!

We cannot mold Him into our desires, He would never fit. His plans our too infinite. His love too sweet. His grace to bountiful. His knowledge is too deep. His ways are too profound. There is no God like our God, no God at all! ! !

For the Lord my God is a Great God, He is the king above ALL God’s!

May HIS name and HIS name alone be praised!

May my idols be stripped away with whatever force and whatever harm my flesh endures.  That I might be humbled, my heart softened.  Oh that I may seek the Lord God on High and know Him.

Oh to know the Lord our God! ! !

What a wonderful thing that would be, to know God as we ought