Sunday, September 19, 2010

So Good.

God is good. There's something about hearing a man who lost his five year old daughter saying such an essential truth only two days after her passing. It's a simple truth that I tend to overlook because I focus on the other characteristics of God. My favorite characteristic of God is that he's long-suffering, it's the one I choose to default to because it reminds me that He is loving and gracious and merciful and protective and kind but there is an extent to which he will take it. Long-suffering reminds me never to push my luck with God. It also in a way makes him more real, it's such a humanly characteristic, more so than the rest of them in my opinion. However, none of this is true unless God is above all things GOOD. God offers us grace and mercy and security and second and third and forth offenses because He is Good. And that, that is a good thing. I'm thankful that I've been reminded of such a vital truth. I'm thankful that God chooses to be good. I'm thankful that there are people with such strong faith, that even in the midst of their suffering they keep the ultimate truth in sight. I'm excited to mediate on such a glorious truth from now on. Yes, God is good.

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