The Goodness of God
God is love and those who live in him should be in love,
love one another just as we are loved by Jesus. John 13:34.
Dear friends, the last topics we looked at were QUIET TIME
and DESTRUCTION A SURE DEAL TO THOSE WHO DO TRUST IN THE ITEMS OF THE WORLD and
for now, we are going to look at something similar, “THE GOODNESS OF GOD”.
God loves you and me; he wants us to live in him and with
him so that he also lives with us and in us. God has plans for you and me in
this world. Due to his love, he has plans to prosper you and me but not to
cause harm on you (Jeremiah 29:11) because he is with us in every step of our
life (Zephaniah 3:17).
Now if I may ask, why do we cry when we face problems,
persecutions, challenges or fail to attain our desires? It is because we do not
live a life expected by God of us. For a good relationship to take place, God
expects us to live a life dedicative to him because he does not want to
willingly bring affliction of grief to anyone (Lamentations 3:33). Our human
negligence turns us away from the love of God paving way for Satan to take
charge of us with all the pains and sufferings.
As it is written in Romans “there is no one righteous, not
even one” (Romans 3:10) meaning that everyone has sinned and turned away from
God, including you and me making him to withdraw his love from us. We have to
note that once God leaves us due to our disobedience, we are subject to
sufferings, pain and hardships because there is no one to love, protect and
provide for us.
But due to the goodness of the Lord God, he has promised to
forgive our sins however on the condition that we are able to agree that we
have knowingly and unknowingly sinned and are able to confess of our sins.
God’s love is genuine, he does not want us to perish but be in him so that we
can inherit an everlasting life (John 3:16) so that if we believe in Jesus, we
may find life. (John 3:36).
God is welcoming you and me back so that we can restore back
the Brocken relationship (Joel 2:12-13). Can you just see this goodness of the
Lord, after your bundles of sin; he still needs you back and can forgive all
the sins. However much we go wrong against God, he is ready and just to forgive
us if only we admit and do confess. Render your hearts to the Lord; let him be
your leader and director in life. You should also know that walking in
obedience please God (Hebrews 11:5-6, also Colossians 3:12-14) and do not take
the help you offer to your friends as a burden to you but a help to glorify God
(Colossians 3:23). We need to have fear for the Lord because our deeds are
accountable to him (Ecclesiastes 12:13-13).
My dear lovely friends, I wish to tell you that we should
therefore be alert and desist from the attacks of Satan, put on the full amour
of the Lord (Ephesians 6:11) so that it will not be a surprise attack on our
lives (Ecclesiastes 9:11-12)
I love you with the love of our savior Jesus Christ and I do
expect you to love one another wherever you may be just as Christ loves us.
Be Blessed
Mathew.
