God is Good!

God is so good! I have been seeking the Lord and trusting in Him for everything these past few years of my life. I have been surrendering things, seeking holiness, and desiring to honor God in all things. There have been times I’ve worried and had to repent because the word of God tells us not to worry, but to trust God. There have been times I’ve seen God move on my behalf and have stood in awe of His awesome mercy and love. There have been times I’ve had to wage spiritual warfare, times I was exhausted and just wanted to give up, times I just praised the Lord through the storms, and times I just rested in Him. Today I just sit back and reflect, before I knew the Lord life had no meaning, no true significance… I sought after my own desires, my own lust and was never truly fulfilled. Every trial and storm I went through before I knew God… just felt so unbearable and hopeless. Relationships were so superficial and unstable. My moral system was based merely upon my own opinions and my own standards instead of the word of God. I was unstable in all of my ways, I blasphemed the Lord without even knowing it. I was an idolater, believing in a god that I made up in my mind… a god that didn’t care that I was living in willful sin and disobedience. I was a lost little girl…and so now that I have been experiencing the power of the true and living God, I can’t help but proclaim His goodness to all! “He has been Good”!
It more than a common phrase or some spiritual cliché, He has truly been so good to me. He opened my eyes, He showed me my exceeding sinfulness, He drew me unto Himself, He died for me, He showed me grace, He led me to repentance, He saved me from the wrath to come, He had extreme mercy upon me, He filled me with His Holy Spirit, He has provided all my needs, He has healed all my hurts, He has made me a new creation, He has delivered me from the bondage of sin and death, He has put a new heart within me, He has revealed the mysteries of His word unto me, He has lead me and strengthened me, He has ordered my steps and seen me through every moment…. God is good! I can go on and on and on about God’s goodness… yet now I rather go and pray and sincerely thank the Lord for all He is in my life!