I was taught growing up to be 'realistic', however, I've also learned along the way that most of the time reality is pretty negative... so in my attempts to be realistic, I'm labeled, and probably quite correctly I might add, a pessimist.
Another area, that I was blown away by tonight that makes me continue to state.. I'm the worst at doing this... I'm here to live out my faith, being obedient to what my God has called me to do.. but oh how much of this God I still cannot comprehend. I'm here wanting to give my life to sharing Him with the nations, when in all reality, I'm still trying to know Him more. (And please no comments about being obedient/faithful/any other praising me comments and no comments about the I know we all as Christians are constantly supposed to be seeking Him and knowing Him more...just bear with me, I'm using this to go in a slightly different direction.)
Tonight, we went to an evening service with the team of short-termers and we began to sing a song that I have never sang before and it described mainly one of the qualities of God.
Now before I say what this quality is.. I can say this, if someone were to ask me to describe God, there are many things I would say, but as we were singing, I realized.. this particular aspect of God would have never crossed my mind, I just don't see/think that way. I would say God is: sovereign, almighty, faithful, strong, worthy of all praise, compassionate.
The main chorus of the song:
You are Good
You are Good
You are Good
Jesus
How often do I simply overlook that God is GOOD?
The sermon went on to be about Luke 11:1-13, which talks about how to pray but towards the end of the text, Jesus talks about if we, as evil people know how to give our children good gifts, how much more so will our Heavenly Father.
Even though I've known the whole "God is Good", "All the time!", "All the time", "God is Good!" chant for years, but yet I've never saw or praised God as being simply good.
Needless to say, my mindset will be undergoing some changes.
Father LORD, thank you for being so GOOD!! Amen
~ To God Be the Glory!
1 comment:
Sweet girl ... you ARE NOT the worse missionary ever -- not even close! Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try we're all going to "fail" in some way in this world. BUT - when we get to our real home - there will be no more failures and everything will be revealed to us in ways we can truly understand. Until then, we just do the best we can here and fully rely on His promises - which are all GOOD!
Love you!
Mindy
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