Reading: Psalms 95 - 100
My Verse: "For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations" (Psalm 100:5).
You alone are truly good, LORD God. All that You created is good. "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). To behold Your handiwork is to behold all that is good - a starry night, fall leaves, a hillside filled with a riot of colorful wildflowers, a bird's song, a child's laughter. All these wonderful things make one feel good. They ring true because there is truth in them, truth and goodness!
"No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18).
"Thou are good and doest good" (Psalm 119:68).
"Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good" (Psalm 135:3).
You created us in Your image and so created us to be good. (Genesis 1:27) When we walk in Your precepts we feel a rightness in all that we do even as we see so much that is wrong around us. When we stay in Your word it is somehow reflected in our very countenance! I once had an elder person comment on how I looked compared to another person much younger than myself. He said I looked younger and happier! I was rather amazed because I did not see that. But it was a time when I was very much into Your Word LORD God! This elder person perceived that! He saw past me and saw only Your goodness shining through me!
When I do something wrong I feel it! Suddenly things are not good! I am out of sorts! LORD God, thank You for that! Thank You for creating us in Your own image so that when we do wrong we immediately know it! Instead of our world ringing true, everything starts to clang! My conscience frets at me. My very body becomes ill. I become stressed! One need only to go to the webmd.com site to see all the physical symptoms suffered by those in stress - stress caused by guilt. We make ourselves miserable by trying to make ourselves happy through wrong behavior, behavior that is selfish and against Your precepts LORD God! David said it so incredibly well!
"For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer" (Psalm 32:3,4).
Thank You, LORD God that You do not let us get off so easily with sin. Thank You also for making it possible to be free of that guilt. You only ask that we repent and You will forgive us and put aside the wrongs we did. (I John 1:9) Admitting one is wrong can be hard but the relief it brings is so worth it! Only through this can we again feel Your goodness. Again David tells best of the wonderful relief and freedom when we seek and find forgiveness.
"Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered,
Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit" (Psalm 32:1,2).
Thank You, LORD God, for Your goodness! That sense of things in one's life "ringing true" is so very wonderful!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations" (Psalm 100:5).
You alone are truly good, LORD God. All that You created is good. "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). To behold Your handiwork is to behold all that is good - a starry night, fall leaves, a hillside filled with a riot of colorful wildflowers, a bird's song, a child's laughter. All these wonderful things make one feel good. They ring true because there is truth in them, truth and goodness!
"No one is good except God alone" (Mark 10:18).
"Thou are good and doest good" (Psalm 119:68).
"Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good" (Psalm 135:3).
You created us in Your image and so created us to be good. (Genesis 1:27) When we walk in Your precepts we feel a rightness in all that we do even as we see so much that is wrong around us. When we stay in Your word it is somehow reflected in our very countenance! I once had an elder person comment on how I looked compared to another person much younger than myself. He said I looked younger and happier! I was rather amazed because I did not see that. But it was a time when I was very much into Your Word LORD God! This elder person perceived that! He saw past me and saw only Your goodness shining through me!
When I do something wrong I feel it! Suddenly things are not good! I am out of sorts! LORD God, thank You for that! Thank You for creating us in Your own image so that when we do wrong we immediately know it! Instead of our world ringing true, everything starts to clang! My conscience frets at me. My very body becomes ill. I become stressed! One need only to go to the webmd.com site to see all the physical symptoms suffered by those in stress - stress caused by guilt. We make ourselves miserable by trying to make ourselves happy through wrong behavior, behavior that is selfish and against Your precepts LORD God! David said it so incredibly well!
"For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer" (Psalm 32:3,4).
Thank You, LORD God that You do not let us get off so easily with sin. Thank You also for making it possible to be free of that guilt. You only ask that we repent and You will forgive us and put aside the wrongs we did. (I John 1:9) Admitting one is wrong can be hard but the relief it brings is so worth it! Only through this can we again feel Your goodness. Again David tells best of the wonderful relief and freedom when we seek and find forgiveness.
"Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered,
Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit" (Psalm 32:1,2).
Thank You, LORD God, for Your goodness! That sense of things in one's life "ringing true" is so very wonderful!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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