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March 17, 2010
A Good God
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. —Psalm 9:9
When my brother-in-law was a missionary in Mali, West Africa, he was involved in a traffic accident. A man had wandered into the road in front of Chuck’s motorcycle. The cycle struck the man and sent Chuck and the bike sliding along the ground for more than 200 feet. Shortly after Chuck regained consciousness in the hospital, his doctor told him he had been “really lucky.” Chuck smiled and replied, “God is good.”
Later he thought about the day’s events. The man who was struck hadn’t received any permanent injuries, and Chuck would also recover from his injuries. But what if one of them had been killed? He thought, God would be no less good.
When we experience tragedy, we may wonder about God’s goodness. Is God always good? Yes, He is. He doesn’t promise that bad things will never happen to us, but He does promise to be “our refuge and strength” (Ps. 46:1). He doesn’t promise that we will never walk through heart-wrenching circumstances, but He promises that we won’t be alone (23:4).
God is good—no matter what suffering we are experiencing. Even when we don’t understand, we can say with Habakkuk, “Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (3:18).
O taste and see that God is good
To all who seek His face;
Yea, blest the one who trusts in Him,
Confiding in His grace. —Psalter
God tests our faith so that we may trust His faithfulness.
“God is good—no matter what suffering we are experiencing. Even when we don’t understand, we can say with Habakkuk, “Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation” (3:18”
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The psalms are beautiful. To read a psalm a day and a chapter of Proverbs a day , as a life principle on going is a blessing that reaps much growth in God's Word.
For one time only I am posting them ...
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“Psalm 1 (King James Version)
Psalm 1
1.Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2.But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3.And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4.The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5.Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6.For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
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and
Proverbs 1
1.The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2.To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3.To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4.To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5.A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6.To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7.The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8.My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9.For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10.My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11.If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12.Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13.We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14.Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15.My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16.For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17.Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18.And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19.So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20.Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21.She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22.How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23.Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24.Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25.But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26.I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27.When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28.Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29.For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30.They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31.Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32.For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33.But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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God is good.
