Sometimes it scares me how easy it is for me to forget why it is that I praise my God. It is so easy to forget who he is and what he has done for us. His love and grace can become almost commonplace. But, during Sunday service yesterday I was reminded of a few things.
God is goodness in its rawest form. He is everything we love in this world, he is everything we are not naturally (Romans 7:18). He is everything we desired to be, he is beauty. And through his loving grace he chooses to put a little of himself in every one of us.
God is goodness in its rawest form. He is everything we love in this world, he is everything we are not naturally (Romans 7:18). He is everything we desired to be, he is beauty. And through his loving grace he chooses to put a little of himself in every one of us.
Sometimes it is scary to look at the
world and realize how much evil we are capable of. Just think of the hurt we
could cause, of the hurt we have caused.
But, God is none of that. God is the part of us that is the opposite of
that. He is the part of us that can do good things.
When we have
felt a moment of love, we have felt God. We have caught our breath at the
beauty of a starry night or a magnificent sunset, we have caught a glimpse of
God and who he is. God is beauty (Isaiah 33:17), God is love (1 John 4:8). God is patience, kindness, and compassion
(Galations 5:22). God is everything good in this world.
“And therefore a
man should rest himself so fully in God that he need not to seek many comforts
of men. When a good man is afflicted, tempted, or troubled with evil thoughts,
then he understandeth better the great need he hath of God, without whom he
perceiveth he can do nothing that is good.”
--- Thomas A Kempis
I found this
written in my diary the other day, and I remembered exactly what I meant when I
wrote it:
Because he showed me, I know how to live.
Because he died for me, I know true love.
In him I am happy, so I laugh.
God showed us
exactly how we are to live through his own son’s life and through the guidance
of his Holy Spirit. And through the death of Jesus Christ, we witnessed perfect
unconditional love. When I see my niece rushing to get one of her little Hello
Kitty band-aids to give to another child who has fallen down, I smile. Selfless
Compassion. When I hear my nephew laugh at a caterpillar crawling on his arm, I
laugh with him. God is joy. God is in that child, causing them to rush to the
help of others. God is in everything I love and take joy in in this world.
Because I find my joy in him, it is only natural that I then begin to glorify
him.
God is beauty. God is goodness. Then we can have absolute faith that his plan is good as well.
God is beauty. God is goodness. Then we can have absolute faith that his plan is good as well.
