Yes! There is Good News! Aug 2, 2019

Yes indeed, the word of God is filled with good news! From beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation we find that God, our God, not only desires good things for His creation but continues to let us know that He has blessings for us.

Sometimes we look at our lives and think that, because things have gone awry, God doesn’t care about us. We cannot see beyond the clouds and rain and storm; sometimes our prayer is just a cry out to God, “Why? Why is this happening to me?” Have you ever consider that He may be trying to get our attention and so teach us something?

Oft times we human beings will only consider our situation when things go wrong! When we have all that we need and our lives seem to be moving along quite nicely, we have a tendency to forget about the One who cares about us more than we could ever comprehend.

Some time ago a wise friend posed a question to myself and some others, “Why is it,” he asked, “that we only seek God in earnest when we are in trouble or having problems? What if we would learn to seek Him when things are going well in our lives, and then we might watch the blessings of grace and mercy flow from the one we call our Father?”

I have striven to break that old habit. I try to remain mindful of the reality that God is always near, and I can and should talk with Him often, praising Him and telling Him of my love for Him. There is an old hymn from the late 1800s titled, “Take Time to be Holy.” I truly enjoy singing it. The opening line goes like this, “Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord. Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word.”

King David put it this way in the 34th Psalm, “I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be on my lips. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!”

David first tells us what he is going to do “at all times” and “continually.” And then he invites us to join him in “magnifying the LORD” and “exalting His name.” I do not believe there ever was a person, from this earth, who desired to please God more than David!! He wrote a little later, in this same Psalm, “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.”

You know, I really like ice cream and when I find a flavor that tastes wonderful, I want to taste more!! My friends, God is more than wonderful. He is better than anything this world has to offer. In 1 Peter 2:2, the apostle Peter writes this, “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

If indeed!! I know of nothing that tastes better.